The Floating World - A Novel (Paperback)

As the storm is fast approaching the Louisiana coast, Cora Boisdore refuses to leave the city. Her parents, Joe Boisdore, an artist descended from freed slaves who became the city's preeminent furniture makers, and his white "Uptown" wife, Dr. Tess Eshleman, are forced to evacuate without her, setting off a chain of events that leaves their marriage in shambles and Cora catatonic - the victim or perpetrator of some violence mysterious even to herself. This mystery is at the center of Babst's haunting and profound novel. Cora's sister, Del, returns to New Orleans from the successful life she built in New York City to find her hometown in ruins and her family deeply alienated from one another. As Del attempts to figure out what happened to her sister, she must also reckon with the racial history of the city and the trauma of a disaster that was not, in fact, some random act of God but an avoidable tragedy visited on New Orleans's most vulnerable citizens. Separately and together, each member of the Boisdore clan must find the strength to remake home in a city forever changed. The Floating World is the Katrina story that needed to be told - one with a piercing, unforgettable loveliness and a vivid, intimate understanding of this particular place and its tangled past.

General

Imprint:	Algonquin Books (division of Workman)
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	September 2018
Authors:	C. M. Babst • C Morgan Babst
Dimensions:	210 x 140 x 22mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	400
ISBN-13:	978-1-61620-863-9
Categories:	Books > Fiction > General & literary fiction > Modern fiction
LSN:	1-61620-863-5
Barcode:	9781616208639

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