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We Hold Our Breath - A Journey to Texas Between Storms (Hardcover)
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We Hold Our Breath - A Journey to Texas Between Storms (Hardcover)
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“Houston spread like a glass of milk spilled on the wobbling
table of Texan plains,” Micah Fields writes in this unique and
poetic blend of reportage, history, and memoir. Developed as the
commercial hub of the Texas cotton and sugarcane industries,
Houston was designed for profit, not stability. Its first residents
razed swamplands into submission to construct a maze of highways
and suburbs, giving the city a sprawling, centerless energy where
feral cats, alligators, and poisonous snakes flourished in the
bayous as storms and floods rattled coastal Texas. When Hurricane
Harvey made landfall in 2017, Fields set off from his home in Iowa
back to the battered city of his childhood to rescue his mother who
was hell-bent on staying no matter how many feet of rain surged in
from the Gulf. Along the way, he traded a Jeep for a small boat and
floated among the storm’s detritus in search of solid ground.
With precision and eloquence, Fields tracks the devastation of
Hurricane Harvey, one storm in a long lineage that threatens the
fourth largest city in America. Fields depicts the history of
Houston with reverence and lyrical certainty, investigating the
conflicting facets of Texan identity that are as resilient as they
are catastrophic, steeped in racial subjugation, environmental
collapse, and capitalist greed. He writes of the development of the
modern city in the wake of the destruction of Galveston in 1900; of
the wealthy Menil family and self-taught abstract painter Forrest
Bess, a queer artist and fisherman born in 1911 who hardly ever
left the Gulf Coast; of the oil booms and busts that shaped the
city; of the unchecked lust for growth that makes Houston so
expressive of the American dream. We Hold Our Breath is a portrait
of a city that exists despite it all, a city whose story has always
been one of war waged relentlessly against water.
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Imprint: |
W W Norton & Co Inc
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
June 2023 |
Authors: |
Micah Fields
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Dimensions: |
218 x 147 x 18mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Hardcover - Cloth over boards
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Pages: |
160 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-324-00379-3 |
Categories: |
Books >
Science & Mathematics >
Science: general issues >
General
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LSN: |
1-324-00379-0 |
Barcode: |
9781324003793 |
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