num_pages: 364
description: Originally a self-published sensation by a Pulitzer Prize-winning author, 1 Dead in Attic captures the heart and soul of New Orleans in the immediate aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.1 Dead in Attic is a collection of stories by Times-Picayune columnist Chris Rose, recounting the first harrowing year and a half of life in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. Celebrated as a local treasure and heaped with national praise, Rose provides a rollercoaster ride of observation, commentary, emotion, tragedy, and even humor—in a way that only he could find in a devastated wasteland. They are stories of the dead and the living, stories of survivors and believers, stories of hope and despair. And stories about refrigerators. 1 Dead in Attic freeze-frames New Orleans, caught between an old era and a new, during its most desperate time, as it struggles out of the floodwaters and wills itself back to life.
language: English
title: 1 Dead in Attic: After Katrina
titlecomplete: 1 Dead in Attic: After Katrina
genres: Book Club, Biography, Essays, History, Southern, Historical, Nonfiction, Journalism, Short Stories, Memoir
ratings_count: 3651
awards: awardedAt: 1136102400000
name: Independent Publisher Book Award (IPPY)
category: Essay/Creative Non-fiction
publisher: Simon & Schuster