viii, 245 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 25 cm
Note
"A Caravan book"--T.p. verso.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-242).
Summary
Louisiana native Ken Wells provides a close-up look at the harrowing experiences in the backwaters of New Orleans during and after Katrina. Focusing on the plight of the intrepid Robin family, whose members trace their local roots to before the American Revolution, Wells recounts the landfall of the storm and the tumultuous seventy-two hours afterward, when the Robins? beloved bayou country lay catastrophically flooded and all but forgotten by outside authorities as the world focused its attention on New Orleans. Wells follows his characters for more than two years as they strive, amid mind-boggling wreckage and governmental fecklessness, to rebuild their shattered lives. This is a story about the deep longing for home and a proud bayou people?s love of the fertile but imperiled low country that has nourished them.
