Non fiction books about hurricane katrina

I remember being in elementary school art class when the challenger exploded, law school tax class on the morning of 911, and a far safer new jersey. Along with pictures and a bibliography, you will learn about hurricane katrina like never before, in no time at all. Though 10 years have passed since hurricane katrina devastated. Ten years ago, hurricane katrina rumbled ashore, wreaking havoc across louisiana, mississippi, and the entire gulf coast. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading the great deluge.

The yellow house won the 2019 national book award for nonfiction. Katrina books shed new light on disaster even after the extensive coverage of hurricane katrina, new orleans journalist jason berry say theres much to be learned from new books. Zeitoun by dave eggers, salvage the bones by jesmyn ward, ninth ward by jewell parker rhodes, five days at memorial. Five days at memorial is sheri finks elaborately researched chronicle of life, death, and the choices in between at a new orleans hospital immediately following hurricane katrina. While most young readers will have little to no memories of the event, the. This article is an ongoing effort to list the many artworks, books, comics, movies, popular songs, and television shows that feature hurricane katrina as an event in the plot. After the flood by gary rivlin, five days at memorial.

He chooses the best books on hurricane katrina, ranging from a novel to a geographical biography of new orleans. Here are some of the best articles and books written about the storm in the decade that followed it, as selected by the huffington posts staff. Whats important, it slowly emerges, is that despite finks painstaking recreation based on five hundred interviews and mountains of documentswe werent there. Hurricane katrina, new orleans, and the mississippi gulf coast.

The best books on hurricane katrina recommended by gary rivlin. Inspired by a real man, this story is part fact, part fiction, and all heart. As the waters rose during the worst of hurricane katrina, brooms older brother carl, who also goes by. Hurricane katrina nonfiction score a book s total score is based on multiple factors, including the number of people who have voted for it and how highly those voters ranked the book. Katrina was not a natural disaster but an engineering one, says the journalist and author. Hurricane katrina, new orleans, and the mississippi gulf coast kindle edition by brinkley, douglas. The book covers august 27 through september 3, 2005, and uses multiple narrative threads, an effect that is. After hurricane katrina, how do you return home when home. Five days at memorial, by sheri fink sheri finks five days at memorial, describes the horrific conditions at a new orleans hospital shortly after hurricane katrina. Hurricane katrina has been featured in a number of works of fiction as well as non fiction. A fast favorite in the canon of katrina literature, the book has not been without. This article needs additional citations for verification.

These books for kids and teens help explain what happened when hurricane. Those curious about the hurricane will find plenty of insight in these fictional. Download it once and read it on your kindle device, pc, phones or tablets. Tulane university history professor horowitz debuts with a vivid and persuasive chronicle of the causes and consequences of hurricane katrina. Disasters have a way of crystalizing time, ensuring we forever remember where we were when they occur. Paranormal in new orleans, louisiana fiction, books with southern romance, best historical novels about new orleans, historical fiction and. He chooses the best books on hurricane katrina, ranging from a novel. Five days of ambiguous morality at katrinahit hospital. Hurricane katrina, 2005teen nonfiction, natural disasters teens.