The Book
Hurricane Katrina struck New Orleans, the levees failed, and soon an epic American city was emptied of practically all its people.
Almost immediately, however, die-hard New Orleanians began a homeward journey. They found once vibrant neighborhoods reduced to shattered, blacked-out shells, but some made a stand and planted the seeds of rebirth amid the wreckage.
In A Season of Night: New Orleans Life after Katrina, author and New Orleans journalist Ian McNulty offers an intimate account of that homecoming and the battle between hope and despair in a surreal landscape.
McNulty moved back to his wrecked New Orleans house soon after the floodwaters drained, living on the second floor and writing this book on a laptop by candlelight.
By turns haunting, inspiring, and darkly comic, this memoir offers a behind-the-headlines story of resilience and renewal for a neighborhood and a city. From bittersweet camaraderie in the ruined streets to the first flickers of cultural revival and the explosive joy of a post-Katrina Mardi Gras, A Season of Night delivers an unprecedented tale from the wounded but always enthralling Crescent City.
Please see the Excerpts section of this site to read samples from the book.
