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How a plucky coterie of Louisiana shrimp-boat captains faced down the most destructive hurricane in U.S. record—and then recognize that the struggle to preserve their centuries-old culture got just begun
With an extended and colorful family history of defying storms, the seafaring Robin cousins of St. Bernard Parish, Louisiana, make a fateful decision to journey out Hurricane Katrina on the hand-built fishing boats for sale in a sheltered Civil War–period harbor called Violet Canal. However when Violet is overrun by killer surges, the Robins must summon almost all their courage, seamanship, and cunning to save themselves and the scores of others abruptly cast to their attention.
In this gripping saga, Louisiana local Ken Wells offers a close-up go through the harrowing activities in the backwaters of New Orleans during and after Katrina. Focusing on the plight of the intrepid Robin family, whose members track their local origins to prior to the American Revolution, Wells recounts the landfall of the surprise and the tumultuous seventy-two hours afterward, when the Robins’ precious bayou country place catastrophically flooded and everything but forgotten by outside government bodies as the world concentrated its attention on New Orleans. Wells uses his personas for more than two years as they strive, amid mind-boggling wreckage and governmental fecklessness, to rebuild their shattered lives. This is a tale about the profound longing for home and a happy bayou people’s love of the fertile but imperiled low country that has nourished them.
