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Also by Tom Piazza:

Devil Sent the Rain, September 2011
Paperback
City of Refuge, August 2009
Hardcover
Why New Orleans Matters, November 2005
Hardcover

CITY OF REFUGE
By: Tom Piazza

Harper Perennial
August 2009
On Sale: August 4, 2009
432 pages
ISBN: 0061673617
EAN: 9780061673610
Hardcover
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In the heat of late summer, two New Orleans families—one black and one white—confront a storm that will change the course of their lives.

SJ Williams, a carpenter and widower, lives and works in the Lower Ninth Ward community where he was born and raised. Across town, Craig Donaldson, a Midwestern transplant and the editor of the city's alternative paper, faces deepening cracks in his family. When the news of the gathering hurricane spreads—and when the levees give way and the floodwaters come—the fate of each family changes forever.

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All Things Considered - August 29, 2009