Summer Reading Project, BookLikes Satellite

Reading Sheri Fink’s Five Days at Memorial last month has given me a strange fascination for Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath. When I saw Gary Rivlin’s Katrina: After the Flood listed on NetGalley for review, I leapt at the chance to read it. The book chronicles the nearly ten years that have passed since Katrina destroyed New Orleans and the Gulf Coast. I read it because I wanted to know what’s happened to the city since it’s faded from the national conscience. Katrina: After the Flood is written in roughly chronological order, detailing 2005 through about 2007 before leapfrogging up to the present. Rivlin, a journalist who has written for The New York Times and WIRED, among other national publications, follows dozens of New Orleanians from the mayor’s intimates to activists to bank CEOs to ordinary homeowners to show a full picture of the devastation of the city and its long, unfinished journey to recovery...

Read the rest of my review at A Bookish Type.