Transcript: Author: New Orleans Slowly Reclaiming Itself

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August 29, 2009
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GUY RAZ
NPR Weekend All Things Considered
08-29-2009
Author: New Orleans Slowly Reclaiming Itself

Host: GUY RAZ
Time 19:00-20:00 PM

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Just after the storm made landfall in Mississippi four years ago today, folks in New Orleans were breathing a sigh of relief. There was damage there but the worst of the winds and waves and storm surge seemed to be about an hour east. Then, the levees broke leaving huge parts of New Orleans under water.

Tom Piazza has spent the last four years exploring that nightmare first in a quick nonfiction book called "Why New Orleans Matters" and then in a celebrated novel "City of Refuge" that's just come out in paperback.

I asked Tom Piazza ...

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