City of Refuge by Tom Piazza

City of Refuge by Tom Piazza

In City of Refuge, a heart-wrenching novel from Tom Piazza, the author of the award-winning Why New Orleans Matters, two New Orleans families--one black and one white--confront Hurricane Katrina, a storm that will change the course of their lives. Reaching across America--from the neighborhoods of New Orleans to Texas, Chicago, and elsewhere--City of Refuge explores this turning point in American culture, one whose reverberations are only beginning to be understood.

The Sunday New York Times, The Atlantic Monthly, The New Republic, and The Village Voice have all published Tom Piazza's work on American music. He is the author of Blues and Trouble (St. Martin's Press), which earned the ASCAP-Deems Taylor award for music writing, and The Guide to Classic Recorded Jazz (University of Iowa Press), which won the ASCAP-Deems Taylor award for music writing. Martin's Press), for which a James Michener medal for fiction was given. He currently resides in New Orleans, where he is working on a novel.