Heart Like Water: Surviving Katrina and Life in Its Disaster Zone
by Joshua Clark
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Author: Joshua ClarkEdition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Published)
Format: Bargain Price
Published: 2007-07-10
ISBN: N/A
Number of pages: 368
Publisher: Free Press
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Book Review: Haunting, Aggravating, Eye-Opening
Summary: 4 Stars
On the one hand, I quite loved this book. On the other hand, I wanted to reach out and smack the author any number of times while I was reading this book. The scenes the author painted for us - his descriptive telling of the surroundings, the geography of this city I know so well and love so much, the noises (or lack of them), the scents of the city as Katrina rolled in on them and the aftermath in the first days were so real and honest. His story sucked me in for hours at a time. I would sort of emerge from this book almost gasping for air and realize literally two hours had passed me by unnoticed.
And yet.... I just wanted to reach through time and thump him the in the forehead like a wayward child and say "sober up you moron!" Tell him step back from the booze for one afternoon like a rational person. First - had he been sober he might have gotten rid of the whiney, bratty girl friend and put her uselessness on a bus the day BEFORE Katrina struck. Second... Perhaps he might have noticed there was a reason the city was still so silent, still empty 14 days after Katrina herself was gone. Perhaps, had he been just a tad less stoned, just a tad more hydrated on anything other than vodka and prune juice cocktails, it might have ocurred to him to take a bike ride just a half mile further over and cast a glance down at the Lower 9th Ward where the bodies were floating out in the open.
Of course that is easy to say in hindsight, not having lived in the author's footsteps myself. Who am I - who are any of us to criticize how another person lives through a crisis? Our nature is to stick close to home and take care of the things, people and places that we know and are familiar and comfortable with. That is normal and healthy and that is exactly what the author did.
His courage is in telling his own tale, warts and all. I for one think he did that pretty darn well and I am glad to have read this book.
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