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Informationen zum Autor Tom Piazza is the author of the novels City of Refuge and My Cold War , the post-Katrina manifesto Why New Orleans Matters , the essay collection Devil Sent the Rain , and many other works. He was a principal writer for the HBO drama series Treme and the winner of a Grammy Award for his album notes to Martin Scorsese Presents: The Blues: A Musical Journey . He lives in New Orleans. Klappentext In the heat of late summer, two New Orleans families—one black and one white—confront a storm that will change the course of their lives. SJ Williams, a carpenter and widower, lives and works in the Lower Ninth Ward community where he and his sister Lucy were born. Across town, Craig Donaldson, a Midwestern transplant and the editor of New Orleans's alternative paper, faces deepening cracks in his family as his wife continues to question the wisdom of raising a family in the city. When the news of the gathering hurricane—called Katrina—comes, the two families make their own very different plans to weather the storm. But the long night of wind and rain is only the beginning—and when the levees give way and the flood waters come, the fate of each family changes forever. Zusammenfassung In City of Refuge , a heart-wrenching novel from Tom Piazza, the author of the award-winning Why New Orleans Matters, two New Orleans families—one black and one white—confront Hurricane Katrina, a storm that will change the course of their lives. Reaching across America —from the neighborhoods of New Orleans to Texas , Chicago , and elsewhere— City of Refuge explores this turning point in American culture, one whose reverberations are only beginning to be understood. ...
