Author:
Brown, Don, 1949-
Imprint:New York : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, c2015.
Description96 p. : chiefly col. ills. ; 27 cm.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (p. 95-96).
Note:On August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina's monstrous winds and surging water overwhelmed the protective levees around low-lying New Orleans, Louisiana. Eighty percent of the city flooded, in some places under twenty feet of water. Property damages across the Gulf Coast topped $100 billion. One thousand eight hundred and thirty-three people lost their lives. The tale of this historic storm and the drowning of an American city is one of selflessness, heroism, and courage -- and also of incompetence, racism, and criminality. Don Brown's kinetic art and as-it-happens narrative capture both the tragedy and triumph of one of the worst natural disasters in American history
