[Read by Johnny Heller]Ten years after Hurricane Katrina made landfall in southeast Louisiana, journalist Gary Rivlin traces the storm's immediate damage, the city of New Orleans's efforts to rebuild itself, and the storm's lasting effects on one of this nation's great cities.Much of New Orleans still sat under water the first time Gary Rivlin glimpsed the city after Hurricane Katrina. Four out of every five houses -- 80 percent of the city's housing stock -- had been flooded. Around that same proportion of schools and businesses were wrecked. People living in flooded areas of the city could not be expected to pay their property taxes for the foreseeable future. How could the city possibly come back? This book traces the stories of New Orleanians of all stripe -- politicians and business owners, teachers and bus drivers, poor and wealthy, black and white -- as they confront the aftermath of one of the great tragedies of our age.

A journalist offers a collection of his columns detailing his own experiences living through Hurricane Katrina, the stories of other city inhabitants, and the struggle to rebuild in the wake of destruction, tragedy, and death.

Product Description: Voices Rising II is the second book created from the archives of The Katrina Narrative Project, a sweeping enterprise by the University of New Orleans to collect diverse accounts and histories from Louisiana citizens who endured Hurricane Katrina in 2005...read more

An account of Hurricane Katrina and the devastation it left in New Orleans and across the Gulf Coast documents the events and repercussions of the tragedy and its aftermath and the ongoing crisis confronting the region.