1 dead in attic: after katrina - chris rose

With a new foreword by the author on the tenth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina--Chris Roses New York Times bestselling collection: A gripping book about lifes challenges in post-Katrina New Orleans.

packed with heart, honesty, and wit ( New Republic ).

Celebrated as a local classic and heaped with national praise, 1 Dead in Attic is a brilliant collection of columns by an award-winning Times-Picayune journalist chronicling the horrific damage and aftermath wrought by Hurricane Katrina in 2006.

Frank and compelling.

vivid and invaluable ( Booklist ), it is a roller coaster ride through a devastated American wasteland as it groans for rebirth.

Full of the emotion, tragedy and even humor--which has made Chris Rose a favorite son and the voice of a lost city--these are the stories of the dead and the living, of survivors and believers, of destruction and recovery, and of hope and despair.

With photographs by British photojournalist Charlie Varley, 1 Dead in Attic captures New Orleans caught between an old era and a new, New Orleans in its most desperate time, as it struggled out of floodwaters and willed itself back to life.