With a new foreword by the authorâChris Roseâs New York Times bestselling collection: âA gripping book about lifeâs challenges in post-Katrina New OrleansâŚpacked with heart, honesty, and witâ (New Republic).
Celebrated as a local classic and heaped with national praise, 1 Dead in Attic is a brilliant collection of columns by an award-winning Times-Picayune journalist chronicling the horrific damage and aftermath wrought by Hurricane Katrina in 2006. âFrank and compelling...vivid and invaluableâ (Booklist), it is a roller coaster ride through a devastated American wasteland as it groans for rebirth. Full of the emotion, tragedy and even humorâwhich has made Chris Rose a favorite son and the voice of a lost cityâthese are the stories of the dead and the living, of survivors and believers, of destruction and recovery, and of hope and despair.
With photographs by British photojournalist Charlie Varley, 1 Dead in Attic captures New Orleans caught between an old era and a new, New Orleans in its most desperate time, as it struggled out of floodwaters and willed itself back to life.