A Season of Night: New Orleans Life after Katrina

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For many months after Hurricane Katrina, life in New Orleans meant negotiating streets strewn with debris and patrolled by america Army. A number of the city used to be without power. Emptied and ruined houses, businesses, schools, and churches stretched for miles through once thriving neighborhoods.

Almost immediately, alternatively, die-hard New Orleanians started a homeward journey. A travelogue through this surreal landscape, A Season of Night: New Orleans Life after Katrina offers a deeply intimate, firsthand account of that homecoming. After the floodwaters drained, writer Ian McNulty returned to survive the second one floor of his wrecked house without electricity or neighbors. For months his sanity used to be writing this book on a laptop by candlelight.

By turns haunting, inspiring, and darkly comic, this memoir offers a at the back of-the-headlines story of resilience and renewal. From bittersweet camaraderie in the wreckage to depression and violent rampages in the lawless night to the first flickers of cultural revival and the explosive joy of a post-Katrina Mardi Gras, A Season of Night delivers an unprecedented tale from the wounded but all the time enthralling Crescent City. Learn more about the book and its writer at http://www.seasonofnight.com/

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