Heart like water
Subtitle: surviving Katrina and life in its disaster zone
By: Joshua Clark
Edition: 1st Free Press hardcover ed.
Publisher: Free Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 356
ISBN-13: 9781416537632
Subjects: Social aspects; Hurricane Katrina, 2005; Disaster victims; Biography; History
Description: Joshua Clark never left New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina, choosing instead to band together with fellow holdouts in the French Quarter, pooling resources and volunteering energy in an effort to save the city they loved. When Katrina hit, Clark, a key correspondent for National Public Radio during the storm, immediately began to record hundreds of hours of conversations with its victims, not only in the city but throughout the Gulf: the devastated poor and rich alike; rescue workers from around the country; reporters; local characters who could exist nowhere else but New Orleans; politicians; the woman Clark loved, in a relationship ravaged by the storm. Their voices resound throughout this memoir of a unique and little-known moment of anarchy and chaos, of heartbreaking kindness and incomprehensible anguish, of mercy and madness as only America could deliver it.--From publisher description.