City of Refuge

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. ''One of the most deeply humanistic portraits of people coping with cataclysm since The Grapes of Wrath.''-Douglas Brinkley, winner of the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award

About the author

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.

Product details

• Authors: Tom Piazza, Piazza Tom
• Publisher: Harper Perennial USA
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 04.08.2009
• EAN: 9780061673610
• ISBN: 978-0-06-167361-0
• No. of pages: 432
• Dimensions: 133 mm x 203 mm x 24 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Romance, Fantasy Romance, Historical fiction, Poetry, Africa, Relating to early adulthood, Historical fantasy, Fiction: general and literary, Romance: fantasy and paranormal, FICTION: Literary, FICTION: Women, FICTION: Family Life / General, FICTION: Historical / General, FICTION: Romance / Historical / American, FICTION: Fantasy / Romance, FICTION: Fantasy / Historical, FIRST YEAR EXPERIENCE: AMERICAN HISTORY & SOCIETY, FICTION: Romance / New Adult, Relating to African American / Black American people, Modern and Contemporary romance, First Year Experience / American History & Society