A Season of Night: New Orleans Life after Katrina Review

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(More customer reviews)I thoroughly enjoyed "A Season of Night: New Orleans After Katrina". It is one of those rare books that compel the reader to finish it in one sitting. It's descriptions of the surreal, tragic, and sometimes humorous events make it hard to believe this is non-fiction.
McNulty has a true gift. His recounting of his journey back to Mid-City grabs the emotions of his readers and has everyone "feeling" his book. He has done a remarkable job relating the tragedy of Katrina to those
who only watched it on TV or read about it in the newspaper. He has done a great service to his City and his fellow survivors. As one of millions of people who only experienced Katrina through the media McNulty's book gives a true human perspective.
"A Season of Night" will be high on my recommendation list for "must reads" this summer.

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For many months after Hurricane Katrina, life in New Orleans meant negotiating streets strewn with debris and patrolled by the United States Army. Most of the city was without power. Emptied and ruined houses, businesses, schools, and churches stretched for miles through once thriving neighborhoods.
Almost immediately, however, die-hard New Orleanians began a homeward journey. A travelogue through this surreal landscape, A Season of Night: New Orleans Life after Katrina offers a deeply intimate, firsthand account of that homecoming. After the floodwaters drained, author Ian McNulty returned to live on the second floor of his wrecked house without electricity or neighbors. For months his sanity was writing this book on a laptop by candlelight.
By turns haunting, inspiring, and darkly comic, this memoir offers a behind-the-headlines story of resilience and renewal. From bittersweet camaraderie in the wreckage to depression and violent rampages in the lawless night to the first flickers of cultural revival and the explosive joy of a post-Katrina Mardi Gras, A Season of Night delivers an unprecedented tale from the wounded but always enthralling Crescent City. Learn more about the book and its author at http://www.seasonofnight.com/
Ian McNulty is a freelance writer and regular contributor to Gambit Weekly and New Orleans Magazine. He is the author of Hungry? Thirsty? New Orleans, a guidebook to restaurants and bars.

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