Barry landed wide of the city, but the season is young, the sense of relief shallow -- Read and share our stories!
Hurricanes can bring out the best in people. What can reliably be found within their wreckage are profiles in bravery and sacrifice, community resilience and mutuality. Here in New Orleans, it can seem as if Katrina produced as many such stories as it did tales of woe and suffering. Dave Eggers’s work of narrative nonfiction Zeitoun, about a Syrian immigrant who paddled through the city rescuing the stranded, is a literary monument to those men and women whose courageous and kind deeds went unrecorded. Less discussed is the base selfishness that precedes every hurricane’s landfall. |
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