1 Dead In Attic: After Katrina

This book is a collection of columns written by Chris Rose about the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans. The book is packed with emotion, tragedy, and even humor. It captures New Orleans in its most desperate time and shows the city's struggle to come back to life. The book is full of photographs by British photojournalist Charlie Varley.

With a new foreword by the author on the tenth anniversary of Hurricane KatrinaChris Roses New York Times bestselling collection: A gripping book about lifes challenges in post-Katrina New Orleanspacked with heart, honesty, and wit (New Republic).

Celebrated as a local classic and heaped with national praise, 1 Dead in Attic is a brilliant collection of columns by an award-winning Times-Picayune journalist chronicling the horrific damage and aftermath wrought by Hurricane Katrina in 2006. Frank and compelling...vivid and invaluable (Booklist), it is a roller coaster ride through a devastated American wasteland as it groans for rebirth. Full of the emotion, tragedy and even humorwhich has made Chris Rose a favorite son and the voice of a lost citythese are the stories of the dead and the living, of survivors and believers, of destruction and recovery, and of hope and despair.

With photographs by British photojournalist Charlie Varley, 1 Dead in Attic captures New Orleans caught between an old era and a new, New Orleans in its most desperate time, as it struggled out of floodwaters and willed itself back to life.