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For many months after Hurricane Katrina emptied and ruined houses, businesses, schools, and churches stretched for miles through once thriving neighbourhoods. Almost immediately, however, die-hard New Orleanians began a homeward journey. A travelogue through this surreal landscape, A Season of Night offers a deeply intimate, firsthand account of that homecoming.
This is more than a simple ‘storm story’ and joins a tradition of evocative place biographies. The author develops his memoir beyond the events of August 2005 into an examination of what makes a community significant."" - Booklist
""McNulty’s account of the slow human recovery as people remade their lives, while elected officials produced a moribund recovery and continuing scandals, is a paean to the passion of workaday citizens who make the reduced city greater than its political parts."" - Chicago Tribune
""Joy—and sorrow—are offered up in equal measure. . . . This book is McNulty’s heartfelt tribute."" - New Orleans Times-Picayune
""A gifted writer, never overwrought or dramatic as in many Katrina memoirs. McNulty writes with maturity, insight, and in gorgeous color both of the devastation and of a city regaining its charm in ragged spurts."" - Ace Atkins, New York Times bestselling author of The Innocents and Robert B. Parker’s Slow Burn
Ian McNulty, New Orleans, Louisiana, has been writing about the life and culture of New Orleans since 1999 as a reporter, columnist, and author. He is a staff writer for the New Orleans Advocate, where he focuses on the food culture of one of the world’s great food cities, and his radio commentaries air weekly on the New Orleans NPR affiliate. He is also author of Louisiana Rambles: Exploring America’s Cajun and Creole Heartland, published by University Press of Mississippi and named one of the top travel books by the Society of American Travel Writers.
This is more than a simple ‘storm story’ and joins a tradition of evocative place biographies. The author develops his memoir beyond the events of August 2005 into an examination of what makes a community significant."" - Booklist
""McNulty’s account of the slow human recovery as people remade their lives, while elected officials produced a moribund recovery and continuing scandals, is a paean to the passion of workaday citizens who make the reduced city greater than its political parts."" - Chicago Tribune
""Joy—and sorrow—are offered up in equal measure. . . . This book is McNulty’s heartfelt tribute."" - New Orleans Times-Picayune
""A gifted writer, never overwrought or dramatic as in many Katrina memoirs. McNulty writes with maturity, insight, and in gorgeous color both of the devastation and of a city regaining its charm in ragged spurts."" - Ace Atkins, New York Times bestselling author of The Innocents and Robert B. Parker’s Slow Burn
Ian McNulty, New Orleans, Louisiana, has been writing about the life and culture of New Orleans since 1999 as a reporter, columnist, and author. He is a staff writer for the New Orleans Advocate, where he focuses on the food culture of one of the world’s great food cities, and his radio commentaries air weekly on the New Orleans NPR affiliate. He is also author of Louisiana Rambles: Exploring America’s Cajun and Creole Heartland, published by University Press of Mississippi and named one of the top travel books by the Society of American Travel Writers.