Reading, Writing, Resurrection
Atlantic, The, January, 2007 by Amy Waldman
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In the summer of 2006, the New Orleans landscape came to include, along with blue tarps and white trailers, moldering ruins and overgrown lawns, and We’re Home and For Sale signs (sometimes on the same house), a series of placards promoting new schools. The signs, planted along the grassy medians of boulevards like St. Charles and St. Claude, bore a less obvious connection to Hurricane Katrina than those offering mold removal or “hurricane attorneys.” But they were every bit as much Katrina’s doing.
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The storm ravaged the city’s architecture and infrastructure, took hundreds of lives, exiled hundreds of ...
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