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.