Loved it! | 1 Dead in Attic: After Katrina

Accurate, Amusing, and Well Written | 1 Dead in Attic: After Katrina | Chris Rose

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	• 1 Dead in Attic: After Katrina Chris Rose Simon & Schuster, 2007 - 384 pages average customer review:based on 26 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Heart Rendering Account of Post Katrina

1 Dead in Attic by Chris Rose. The title is taken from writing on a flood destroyed house, indicating yet another victim of the Hurricane Katrina New Orleans tragedy .

This book, written by an award-winning Times Picayune columnist, contains one-chapter short stories that are simply incredible.

Rather than outline what lead to Katrina, he focuses on the aftermath of the hurricane. His heart rendering account of a year and a half after is so well written that at times I laughed and others I cried. His pithy, heart breaking and poignant tales of the people who are the soul of New Orleans will haunt me for a long time. I laughed at the tale of refrigerator wars; I cried for a city trying to re-claim itself.

After reading this I feel as though I've walked the streets of New Orleans, gleaned some knowledge of what makes the city tick -- the good (those stubborn hold outs who want to rebuild and renew) , the bad (the local politicians, the Army Core of Engineers and the ineffective mayor) and the ugly (very nasty culture that loots, robs, rapes and waits for handouts and blames all others.)

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Loved it!

I couldn't put 1 Dead in Attic down as soon as I picked it up from the library. I thought it was absolutely amazing! Throughout the entire read I could hear Chris Rose telling me heartfelt story story after heartfelt story. His empathy for every New Orleanian that he wrote about bled through every page. I've recommended his book to so many even before I finished! I know some have commented that his "entries" aren't in chronological order, but I don't really think it makes a difference - his message still shines through. I think he did it in order to group similar thoughts and themes within each chapter.

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Accurate, Amusing, and Well Written

Nearly three years after the tragic events surrounding Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, I am still amazed that something like this could occur in America, professed leader of the free world. We, I hate to say it, actually I don't hate to say it because it needs to be said...America, we failed the people of the Gulf Coast and we continue to fail them. FEMA trailers dotting fields as far as the eye can see, but completely unoccupied by those who need to occupy them...FEMA trailers that are occupied, filled with noxious chemicals that will more than likely cause the inhabitants irreversable physical damage, on top of the mental damage that has already been done. We all should be ashamed of this adminstration's lack of humanity and decency. Imagine flooding again, but in the Midwest this time, and STILL nothing is being done?! Have we not learned from our mistakes? Contrary to popular belief, by those who shall remain nameless, you DID NOT DO "a helluva of a job, Brownie!" I gave a helping hand and went to Louisiana after the storm, just like many other people did and it changed me forever. Chris Rose's book is so wonderful and gives such an accurate depiction of what was going on day-to-day. It is written in a manner that makes you feel what he and the other people around him were experiencing at the time. There is no sugar coating, there is no dressing it up. It is what it is and was what it still remains. I could not put the book down and it made my flight to South Africa, all 19 hours of it, much more enjoyable and managable. I love New Orleans and the people of the Gulf Coast and hope that no one ever forgets what has happened and what continues to go unrepaired.

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Death & Distruction: The Katrina Story

I am a voracious reader, and if a book grabs my interest & attention, I usually read a good book in 1 to 2 days. This book is exhausting; it took me 4 settings to complete it. Why? This book is excellent & captures the true misery & humman impact of this deadly storm. The author puts his articles for a newspaper in one book and so truly rivets the reader, as his accounts of life after Katrina conveys the awful sense of depression and calamity, while also including the stories of every day Americans, who put their lives aside, to serve the people in the Gulf coast area. I laughed and cried as I read his stories. susanf

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Katrina aftermath

An excellent book - at times funny, always thought-provoking. It provides a deeper understanding of the issues that face everyone in the New Orleans area post-Katrina, whether they evacuated or not, whether they lost everything or not. While not organized chronologically, it does show the progression of what survivors deal with emotionally while surrounded by devastation. This gave me a much better understanding of what my family members continue to have to endure while trying to rebuild.

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.

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.

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