Laura M Kirby

Hurricane Katrina ranks among this country's worst disasters, but the social devastation that followed turned an already bad situation into a surreal urban nightmare. This is the story of how New Orleans resident John Lee weathered the physical storm only to be caught up in the ensuing anarchy. For ...

Stop and start clink and clank going too fast going too slow. Mrs. Tippet jerked all around the neighborhood.

She grew, she grew, she grew"" squawked Oscar the Parrot.