Nine Lives: Mystery, Magic, Death, and Life in New Orleans, (Paperback)

from bookworm12

This nonfiction book was slow going at first, but after a while I was completely pulled in. It tells the story of nine different people in New Orleans over the course of many decades and it culminates with Hurricane Katrina. Their stories are wildly different, a cop, young black girl, and Indian,...

from arubabookwoman

This nonfiction book about New Orleans and Katrina explores the subject through the view points of nine New Orleanians. It depicts their lives from Hurricane Betsy in 1965 through Katrina. Among the individuals with whom we become intimate: a streetcar track repairman, the transvestite owner of a...

from Whisper1

Recommended by friends on Library Thing who share my quest and thirst for knowledge regarding New Orleans in general, and Hurricane Katrina in specific, I started this book a few weeks ago and finished it this evening. Baum wrote an incredible work and I highly recommend this book. Weaving the st...

from LibraryCin

3.5 stars The author is a journalist who was in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina, where he met some interesting people... people he later decided to write about. This tells the stories of nine different residents of New Orleans, starting in the 1960s and continues through and past Katrina to 2...

from nellista

I learnt a lot about New Orleans that I had no idea about. The difficulties of those in the Lower Ninth Ward, the way that discrimination and segregation continued for longer than I thought, and the krewes and Mardi Gras parade. A bit of an eye opener for me here in Sydney! The thing I really adm...