The Floating World: A Novel
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| Rating | : | 4.62 (735 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B01N0ZO2ZY |
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| Number of Pages | : | 568 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-05-02 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Babst’s writing is fluid and insidious and hauntingly beautiful. It’s a story still difficult to believe--even by those of us who lived through it.”—John Biguenet, author of The Rising Water Trilogy “This powerful and lyrical novel captures the emotional currents in New Orleans after Katrina. “This book is an achingly precise diagram of a city and family in heartbreak. The Boisdorés join some of the great families of American fiction, fascinating kinfolk through whom we watch the rise and fall and rise of New Orleans.”—Kaitlyn Greenidge, author of We Love You, Charlie Freeman "This is a rich and powerful novel, satisfying on many levels--wry, eloquent, passionate, and com
This mystery is at the center of C. Cora’s sister, Del, returns to New Orleans from the life she has tried to build in New York City to find her hometown in ruins and her family deeply alienated from one another. As Del attempts to figure out what happened to her sister, she must also reckon with the racial history of the city, and the trauma of destruction that was not, in fact, some random act of God, but an avoidable tragedy visited upon New Orleans’s most helpless and forgotten citizens.The Floating World is the Katrina story that needed to be told--one with a piercing, unforgettable loveliness and a nuanced understanding of this particular place and its tangled past, written by a New Orleans native who herself says that after Katrina, “if you were blind, suddenly you saw.”. Tess Eshleman, to evacuate without her, setting off a chain of events that leaves their marriage in shambles and Cora catatonic--the victim or perpetrator of some violence mysterious even to herself. Though the storm is fast approaching the Louisiana coast, Cora, the family’s fragile elder daughter, refuses to leave the city, forcing her parents, Joe Boisdoré, an artist descended from a freed slave who became one of the city’s preeminent furniture makers,