![]() ![]() 6-7, 2005, a week after the storm made landfall, African Americans delivered a scathing assessment of the federal government’s relief efforts. I want to honor Ward’s words here not simply by giving them space, but by talking about Hurricane Katrina, specifically about how Hurricane Katrina’s aftermath reveals a lot about racism in America. Finally, I wrote about the storm because I was dissatisfied with the way it recessed from public consciousness. I was also angry at the people who blamed survivors for staying and for choosing to return to the Mississippi Gulf Coast after the storm. It was terrifying and I needed to write about that. ![]() ![]() Q: Why did you want to write about Hurricane Katrina? Ī: I lived through it. (From my copy’s Q&A with the author, Jesmyn Ward): The story itself is small- centered on one family and their neighbors, but it echoes loud and big. Ward delivers so much in just a twelve day span in the story- surprising me at every turn with moments of violence and moments of tenderness. Salvage the Bones was the first book I’ve read about Hurricane Katrina. ![]()
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