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Surviving Katrina and Life in Its Disaster Zone
Free Press
July 2007
On Sale: July 10, 2007
368 pages
ISBN: 1416537635
EAN: 9781416537632
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
Try it. Right now. Picture the lights going off in the room
you're sitting in. The computer, the air conditioning,
phones, everything. Then the people, every last person in
your building, on the street outside, the entire
neighborhood, vanished. With them go all noises: chitchat,
coughs, cars, and that wordless, almost impalpable hum of a
city. And animals: no dogs, no birds, not even a cricket's
legs rubbing together, not even a smell. Now bump it up to
95 degrees. Turn your radio on and listen to 80 percent of
your city drowning. You're almost there. Only twenty-eight
days to go. Joshua Clark never left New Orleans during Hurricane
Katrina, choosing instead to band together with fellow
holdouts in the French Quarter, pooling resources and
volunteering energy in an effort to save the city they
loved. When Katrina hit, Clark, a key correspondent for
National Public Radio during the storm, immediately began to
record hundreds of hours of conversations with its victims,
not only in the city but throughout the Gulf: the devastated
poor and rich alike; rescue workers from around the country;
reporters; local characters who could exist nowhere else but
New Orleans; politicians; the woman Clark loved, in a
relationship ravaged by the storm. Their voices resound
throughout this memoir of a unique and little-known moment
of anarchy and chaos, of heartbreaking kindness and
incomprehensible anguish, of mercy and madness as only
America could deliver it. Paying homage to the emotional power of Joan Didion, the
journalistic authority of Norman Mailer, and the gonzo
irreverence of Tom Wolfe, Joshua Clark takes us through the
experiences of loss and renewal, resilience and hope, in a
city unlike any other. With lyrical sympathy, humility, and
humor, Heart Like Water marks an astonishing and important
national debut.
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