I'm proud to announce that my mother, Sally Cole, has just published her first book--about her Katrina evacuation and relocation experience. It's entitled Leaving New Orleans: An Unsettling Tale, and that is a picture of her vacant lot in New Orleans, where a house used to be, after the storm. Here's the write-up on Amazon:
To live in New Orleans is to leave New Orleans at regular intervals, traveling light: three days of clothes, a cell phone and insurance papers, maybe a lap-top, a six-pack, a pet. The car, kept perpetually gassed up from June through September, encounters gridlock and inches on, west through Baton Rouge or north to Jackson, creeps through the night to whatever friend or room awaits. When the storm makes landfall, the car returns on roads less dense, its load even lighter as, once again, the storm has veered, has left New Orleans high and dry. ...
