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This book is why I read. Her poetic language even in descriptions of difficult, sometimes brutal, situations is remarkable.
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This book romanticizes a stubborn family that refuses to evacuate when facing a direct hit by a category five hurricane. They live in the low lying bayou country of the Mississippi gulf coast in a vulnerable, ramshackle home. All of them very nearly die. When Katrina passes by they congratulate one other for being alive.
The depiction here of the Katrina catastrophe and its build-up seems conveniently manufactured to showcase the author's overrated prose. No image, no scene, no utterance stands ...more
The depiction here of the Katrina catastrophe and its build-up seems conveniently manufactured to showcase the author's overrated prose. No image, no scene, no utterance stands ...more
This was one of the hardest books I ever read because the subject was so profoundly challenging. I do not know this world of which she writes; I have privilege that has kept me from both the powerful threat of weather destroying my existence and from the poverty that this family lives in. Plus, I am white.
Still, I dropped into the world of this story because Ward is a talented writer whose use of language is rich and fresh. By the end, I was as invested in the outcome of a dog fight as I had be ...more
Still, I dropped into the world of this story because Ward is a talented writer whose use of language is rich and fresh. By the end, I was as invested in the outcome of a dog fight as I had be ...more
A story of the 11 days before and the day after Hurricane Katrina hits a Mississippi town. The National Book Award winner was excellent.
Katrina blows through town and nothing changes for poor people in the south.
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