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Do You Know What It Means to Miss New Orleans?
Jason Berry
This beautifully designed hardcover book starts with a line of cars leaving the city ahead of Hurricane Katrina and ends in a mad Mardi Gras romp.
Chin Music
March 2006
160 pages
ISBN: 0974199516
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction Memoir
The book winds through the streets of New Orleans toward a
deeper understanding of just what this great, wounded city
means to the United States. Many of the essays in this
collection were composed by writers trying to piece their
lives together in the aftermath of the hurricane. Written in
places like Baton Rouge, Houston, and Lafayette, these
stories create a bridge back to the old New Orleans. And as
the battle for this city rages on, this book becomes a
razor-sharp weapon in the fight against corporate and
governmental attempts to neuter a unique American city. The structure of the book parallels a New Orleans jazz
funeral, mournful on the approach and celebratory on the
return. Woven throughout the book is a series of interviews
with New Orleans residents from all walks of life-jazz
pianists, grain traders, tour guides, and others who make up
this city. Do You Know What It Means to Miss New Orleans?
takes intimate looks at old New Orleans staples such as
Cajun food and Zydeco music as well as some unexpected views
on race, economics and living in exile. Do You Know What It Means to Miss New Orleans? is the second
book from Chin Music Press. Chin Music released Kuhaku &
Other Accounts from Japan in the spring of 2005 and
immediately established itself as a publisher focused on
meticulous design and collaboration among artists and
writers. As Bookslut.com notes: "From the looks of their
first title, it is clear they are positioning themselves to
be a presence the publishing world has never seen before . .
. [Chin Music Press] is a company that is rewriting the
rulebook and making a beautiful and interesting product in
the process."
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