Drowned City: Hurricane Katrina and New Orleans

On August 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina’s monstrous winds and surging water overwhelmed the protective levees around New Orleans, Louisiana. Eighty percent of the city flooded, in some places under twenty feet of water. Nearly two thousand people lost their lives. The riveting tale of this historic storm is one of selflessness, heroism, and courage—and also of incompetence, racism, and criminality. Don Brown’s kinetic art and as-it-happens narrative capture both the tragedy and triumph of one of the worst natural disasters in American history.

Author: Brown, Don