Heart Like Water : : Surviving Katrina and Life in its Disaster Zone
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absorbing, at times--but not always?
submitted by hathaway1066 on August 17, 2013, 7:22pm
I was initially captivated by Clark's style--but after a hundred or so pages, I found myself skimming.
--but then I was sucked in again!
Clark's knack is to paint portraits of people in such a way that everyone is made larger than life and somehow compelling.
This makes every day and experience that he relates seem worthy of the telling---but after a while it feels as if he relates EVERY day and experience of his time in New Orleans during the lead-up, actual brief duration of, and then (for most of the book) the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.
While those experiences often shed light on the issues of (political) responsibility for the horrible post-Katrina response, and on the truth, as he saw it, of what happened in New Orleans and along the coast, as a result of Katrina and the mis-managed disaster response, I eventually was reading just to see how his relationship with his girlfriend would turn out.
I would still recommend this as a window--and a very readable, insightful one--into the story of Katrina, but you have my support and encouragement if you get to skimming in places.
PUBLISHED
New York : Free Press, 2007.
Year Published: 2007
Description: 356 p. : maps ; 24 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9781416537632
1416537635
SUBJECTS
Clark, Joshua, -- 1975-
Hurricane Katrina, 2005 -- Social aspects.
Disaster victims -- New Orleans -- Biography.
New Orleans (La.) -- History -- 21st century.