Rachel and Sam's family have gone back to the house after the flood and now it is time for the clean up.
Rarely do debut novels come as assured and impressive as this one.”—Sarah Waters, New York Times bestselling author of The Paying Guests Elegant, sinister and psychologically complex, After Me Comes the Flood is the haunting debut novel ...
New Yorker photographer Robert Polidori traveled to New Orleans shortly after Hurricane Katrina to record the destruction.
After the Flood
Katrina tells the stories of New Orleanians of all stripes as they confront the aftermath of one of the great tragedies of our age. This is “one of the must-reads of the season” (The New Orleans Advocate).
From the Booker Prize–winning author of Oryx and Crake, the first book in the MaddAddam Trilogy, and The Handmaid’s Tale.
The story is set against the background of death and destruction wrought by the Ogunpa flood.
It is as much a human story as the story of water and landscape, and Before the Flood movingly reveals both the stories and the science of the key players and the four flooded towns that were washed forever away.
“The guards told us that this was our problem—and, no, they didn't have extra water to give us,” Bradshaw and Slonsky wrote in an article about their experience published in the Socialist Worker eleven days after Katrina.
Perfect for reading aloud, this is the finest work of E. Boyd Smith, a noted children's book illustrator of the early twentieth century.
Basing their research on geophysics, oral legends, and archaeology, the authors offer evidence that the flood in the book of Genesis actually occurred.