Title: The floating world
Description: "When a fragile young woman refuses to leave New Orleans as Hurricane Katrina approaches, her parents are forced to go without her, setting off a chain of events that leaves their marriage in shambles and their daughter catatonic, the victim or perpetrator of some unknown violent act"--
Subjects: Grief, Hurricane Katrina, 2005, Disaster victims, Family relationships, Fiction, Racially mixed families, New orleans (la.), fiction, Fiction, general, New York Times reviewed, Psychological aspects
Places: New Orleans, Louisiana, New Orleans (La.)