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The Good Pirates of the Forgotten Bayous
Ken Wells
Fighting to Save a Way of Life in the Wake of Hurricane Katrina
Yale University Press
September 2008
On Sale: September 2, 2008
272 pages
ISBN: 0300121520
EAN: 9780300121520
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
With a long and colorful family history of defying storms,
the seafaring Robin cousins of St. Bernard Parish,
Louisiana, make a fateful decision to ride out Hurricane
Katrina on their hand-built fishing boats in a sheltered
Civil War–era harbor called Violet Canal. But when Violet
is overrun by killer surges, the Robins must summon all
their courage, seamanship, and cunning to save themselves
and the scores of others suddenly cast into their care. In this gripping saga, Louisiana native Ken Wells provides
a close-up look at the harrowing experiences in the
backwaters of New Orleans during and after Katrina.
Focusing on the plight of the intrepid Robin family, whose
members trace their local roots to before the American
Revolution, Wells recounts the landfall of the storm and
the tumultuous seventy-two hours afterward, when the
Robins’ beloved bayou country lay catastrophically flooded
and all but forgotten by outside authorities as the world
focused its attention on New Orleans. Wells follows his
characters for more than two years as they strive, amid
mind-boggling wreckage and governmental fecklessness, to
rebuild their shattered lives. This is a story about the
deep longing for home and a proud bayou people’s love of
the fertile but imperiled low country that has nourished
them.
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