The Floating World: A Novel
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Rating | : | 4.96 (689 Votes) |
Asin | : | B01N0ZO2ZY |
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Number of Pages | : | 308 Pages |
Publish Date | : | 2016-02-28 |
Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
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, and his white “Uptown” wife, Dr. 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. Morgan Babst’s haunting, lyrical novel. This mystery is at the center of C. 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.”. 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. A dazzling debut abo
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. Babst’s writing is fluid and insidious and hauntingly beautiful. “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.”—