City of Refuge

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. “One of the most deeply humanistic portraits of people coping with cataclysm since The Grapes of Wrath.”-Douglas Brinkley, winner of the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award