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 Orleanspacked 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.
