Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of A Daily Rhythm.
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My Teaser for this week is from
Below The Water Line
Getting Out, Going Back, And Moving Forward In The Decade After Hurricane Katrina
by Lisa Karlin
My Teaser from page 74 in the Paperback.
The ill, the elderly, young children, and babies are especially vulnerable to the heat and poor living conditions that occur in the aftermath of a hurricane. The TV is filled with these images now. People push an old woman on a mattress across a flooded street. Lethargic, diaper-less babies are held in mother’s arms. These images make me want to turn away, but I cannot. I still cannot fathom that what I see is real, and that it is happening in the city in which I live.
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Synopsis
Lisa Karlin’s memoir describes her family’s hurricane evacuation experiences and all that followed in the decade after Hurricane Katrina. In August 2005, Lisa, her husband, thirteen-year-old daughter, eleven-year-old son, and two dogs evacuated New Orleans for what they thought would be a two-day “hurrication.” Her day-by-day account of the weeks that follow vividly chronicles the unprecedented displacement of thousands of Americans, and on a personal level, describes how her family makes the trifecta of major life decisions: where to live, where to work, and where to enroll their children in school. Lisa Karlin provides a personal commentary on how everyday life has been impacted by Katrina’s aftermath and how, a decade later, there are still lingering effects of one of the most devastating events in American history.
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