City of Refuge
Books / Paperback
ISBN: 0061673617 / Publisher: Harper Perennial, August 2009
Uprooted from their New Orleans homes by Hurricane Katrina, the Donaldson and Williams families--one black, the other white--make their way to Houston and share disparate experiences trying to rebuild their lives.
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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.
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