Down in New Orleans : reflections from a drowned city / Billy Sothern ; photographs by Nikki Page.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sothern, Billy, 1977-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hurricane Katrina, 2005.

Hurricanes--Louisiana--New Orleans.

Hurricanes.

Emergency management--Government policy.

Emergency management.

Disaster victims.

Louisiana--New Orleans.

Disaster victims--Louisiana--New Orleans.

Emergency management--Government policy--United States.

United States.

Physical Description:

xxi, 346 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, [2007]

Summary:

"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 unforgettable insider's chronicle of the 2005 disaster and the year that followed. Sothern, a death penalty lawyer who with his wife, photographer Nikki Page, arrived in the 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 guides the reader on a journey through post-Katrina New Orleans.

Contents:

A man leaves home

A stranger comes to town

"This blues is just too big"

A dollar short

Poor, nasty, brutish, and short

Not in my backyard

Left to die

Bring the war home

The dry run of the apocalypse

History repeats itself

Going home

Oxford town

I do believe I've had enough

Everyday reminders

Second line

Gideon's blues

Live from the Circle Bar

Corporate limits

Fat Tuesday

Hard lot

La Nueva Orleans

Yours in struggle

In the parish

Not resigned

Epitaph.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 317-334) and index.

ISBN:

9780520251496

0520251490

OCLC:

78070562