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基本説明
An insider's chronicle of the 2005 disaster and the year that followed.
Full Description
'Post-Katrina New Orleans hasn't been an easy place to live, it hasn't been an easy place to be in love, it hasn't been an easy place to take care of yourself or see the bright side of things'. So reflects Billy Sothern in this riveting and unforgettable insider's chronicle of the epic 2005 disaster and the year that followed. Sothern, a death penalty lawyer who with his wife, photographer Nikki Page, arrived in the Crescent City four years ahead of Katrina, delivers a haunting, personal, and quintessentially American story. Writing with an idealist's passion, a journalist's eye for detail, and a lawyer's attention to injustice, Sothern recounts their struggle to come to terms with the enormity of the apocalyptic scenario they managed to live through. He guides the reader on a journey through post-Katrina New Orleans and an array of indelible images: prisoners abandoned in their cells with waters rising, a longtime New Orleans resident of Middle Eastern descent unfairly imprisoned in the days following the hurricane, trailer-bound New Orleanians struggling to make ends meet but celebrating with abandon during Mardi Gras, Latino construction workers living in their trucks.As a lawyer-activist who has devoted his life to procuring justice for some of society's most disenfranchised citizens, Sothern offers a powerful vision of what Katrina has meant to New Orleans and what it still means to the nation at large.
Contents
Acknowledgments Prologue I. Heading Straight for Usand after Hurricane Katrina 1. A Man Leaves Home 2. A Stranger Comes to Town 3. "This Blues is Just Too Big" II. This Could Be Anywhere: Katrina's Immediate Aftermath, Late Summer 2006 4. A Dollar Short 5. Poor, Nasey, Brutish, and Short 6. Not in My Backyard 7. Left to Die 8. Bring the War Home 9. The Dry Run of the Apocalypse 10. History Repeats Itself III. Personals: Departures and Homecomings 11. Going Home 12. Oxford Town 13. I Do Believe I've Had Enough 14. Everyday Reminders IV. Against the Ropes: New Orleans's Unlikely Recovery 15. Second Line 16. Gideon's Blues 17. Live from the Circle Bar 18. Corporate Limits 19. Fat Tuesday 20. Hard Lot 21. La Neuva Orleans 22. Yours in Struggle 23. In the Parish 24. Not Resigned 25. Epitaph Notes Index
