The Author, A Pulitzer-winning Columnist For The Times-picayune, Chronicles The Horrific Aftermath Of Hurricane Katrina In His Collection Of Candid Essays. 1 Dead In Attic Is A Collection Of Stories By Times-picayune Columnist Chris Rose, Recounting The First Harrowing Year And A Half Of Life In New Orleans After Hurricane Katrina. Celebrated As A Local Treasure And Heaped With National Praise, Rose Provides A Rollercoaster Ride Of Observation, Commentary, Emotion, Tragedy, And Even Humor--in A Way That Only He Could Find In A Devastated Wasteland. They Are Stories Of The Dead And The Living, Stories Of Survivors And Believers, Stories Of Hope And Despair. And Stories About Refrigerators. 1 Dead In Attic Freeze-frames New Orleans, Caught Between An Old Era And A New One, During Its Most Desperate Time, As It Struggles Out Of The Floodwaters And Wills Itself Back To Life.--page 4 Of Cover. Who We Are -- Facing The Unknown -- The First Time Back -- Survivors -- Life In The Surreal City -- Hope -- Rita Takes Aim -- The Empty City -- God And Strippers -- The More Things Change -- Enough To Feed An Army -- Blue Roof Blues -- The Smell -- The Elephant Men -- Mad City -- 1 Dead In Attic -- Despair -- My Introduction To New Orleans -- The Funky Butt -- The Hurricane Kids -- Traveling Man -- Have Barbie, Will Travel -- Prep Boys And Jesuits -- Good-bye -- Groundhog Day -- Coming Home -- Civil Unrest -- Refrigerator Town -- Lurching Toward Babylon -- The Cat Lady -- Caving In -- The Magnet Man -- The Last Ride -- Lights In The City -- Let The Good Times Roll -- Our Katrina Christmas -- Tears, Fears, And A New Year -- Chocolate City -- Tutti-frutti -- He Had A Dream -- He's Picking The Pairs For Nola's Ark -- Rider On The Storm -- Car 54, Where Are You? -- Not In My Pothole -- Survive This -- September Never Ends -- The Muddy Middle Ground -- Misery In The Melting Pot -- The End Of The World -- A Huck Finn Kind Of Life -- Our Very Scary Summer -- Songs In The Key Of Strife -- The End Of The Line -- We Raze, And Raise, And Keep Pushing Forward -- Echoes Of Katrina In The Country -- Second Line, Same Verse -- Don't Mess With Mrs. Rose -- Shooting The Rock -- The City That Hair Forgot -- A Rapturous Day In The Real World -- Big Daddy No Fun -- Peace Among The Ruins -- Artful Practicality -- She Rescued My Heart -- Miss Ellen Deserved Better -- Rebirth At The Maple Leaf -- Melancholy Reveler -- They Don't Get Mardi Gras, And They Never Will -- Reality Fest -- Love Fest -- O Brothers, Where Be Y'all? -- Funeral For A Friend -- Thanks, We Needed That -- Say What's So, Joe -- A Night To Remember -- Eternal Dome Nation -- On The Inside Looking Out -- A City On Hold -- A Tough Nut To Crack -- Hell And Back -- Letters From The Edge -- Children Of The Storm, It's Time To Represent -- Thank You, Whoever You Are -- A New Dawn. Chris Rose. Originally Published: New Orleans, La. : Chris Rose Books, C2005.

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