1 Dead in Attic: After KatrinaOriginally a self-published sensation by a Pulitzer Prize-winning author, 1 Dead in Attic captures the heart and soul of New Orleans in the immediate aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. 1 Dead in Attic is a collection of stories by Times-Picayune columnist Chris Rose, recounting the first harrowing year and a half of life in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. Celebrated as a local treasure and heaped with national praise, Rose provides a rollercoaster ride of observation, commentary, emotion, tragedy, and even humor—in a way that only he could find in a devastated wasteland. They are stories of the dead and the living, stories of survivors and believers, stories of hope and despair. And stories about refrigerators. 1 Dead in Attic freeze-frames New Orleans, caught between an old era and a new, during its most desperate time, as it struggles out of the floodwaters and wills itself back to life. |
Contents
Facing the Unknown | 7 |
Survivors | 13 |
Hope | 19 |
The Empty City | 25 |
The MoreThings Change | 31 |
Blue Roof Blues | 41 |
The Elephant Men | 48 |
Dead in Attic | 56 |
Misery in the Melting Pot | 176 |
A Huck Finn Kind of Life | 187 |
Songs in the Key of Strife | 196 |
We Raze and Raise and Keep Pushing Forward | 210 |
Second Line Same Verse | 221 |
Shooting the Rock | 229 |
A Rapturous Day in the Real World | 238 |
Peace Among the Ruins | 247 |
My Introduction to New Orleans | 67 |
The Hurricane Kids | 75 |
Have Barbie Will Travel | 81 |
Goodbye | 89 |
Coming Home | 95 |
Civil Unrest | 101 |
Lurching Toward Babylon | 107 |
Caving In | 113 |
The Last Ride | 119 |
Let the Good Times Roll | 127 |
Tears Fears and a New Year | 134 |
Chocolate City | 141 |
He Had a Dream | 147 |
Rider on the Storm | 153 |
Not in My Pothole | 160 |
September Never Ends | 169 |
She Rescued My Heart | 253 |
Rebirth at the Maple Leaf | 267 |
They Dont Get Mardi Gras and They Never Will | 274 |
Reality Fest | 278 |
O Brothers Where Be Yall? | 285 |
Thanks We NeededThat | 292 |
A Night to Remember | 301 |
Eternal Dome Nation | 308 |
On the Inside Looking Out | 317 |
A Tough Nut to Crack | 323 |
Letters from the Edge | 340 |
Children of the Storm Its Time to Represent | 347 |
Thank You Whoever You Are | 353 |
Acknowledgments | 363 |
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