Review: A Gripping Story
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 06 7, 2012
When I learned that the plot revolved around Katrina, I wasn't sure I wanted to read it because of the memories it would evoke.  My son had committed suicide less than three weeks earlier.  A local church in my suburban town had set up a help center for the massive stream of evacuees headed for Atlanta.  I volunteered to work at the center, and ended up running the medical clinic.  I must confess, however, that altruism was not my motivation.  I was desperate for any distraction to get my mind off my pain.  I was afraid that reading this book would reopen old wounds, and I was not eager to do that.  But the book had been sent  to me as a gift, and I felt some obligation to read it.  Once I got started, I couldn't put it down.  It was truly a gripping story.  My only complaint is that I would have liked to have heard more about Mayor Ray Nagin's ineptitude during this catastrophe.  It was monumental.