City of Refuge (P.S.) - Softcover

We ve seen the broad outlines of this story on TV. But through Piazza s pen, we feel maybe fully for the first time the surprise and horror as floodwaters sweep through neighborhoods, inching toward attics. --Houston Chronicle"

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.