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Horn Book Magazine
Reviewed on March 1, 2013
With near-biblical cadence, sixteen-year-old orphan Fen recites the flood stories of New Orleans, enumerating the hurricanes that have battered the city over the years as they increase in frequency and intensity. In the beginning, "the sky and the sea can't live without New Orleans being they own, so they start to fight over her." When Jesus, the seventh storm and a category 6, hits the city in 2019, "that be the end of New Orleans. She love that last ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
Horn Book Guide
Reviewed on January 1, 2013 | Older Fiction
When a category 6 hurricane hits and destroys New Orleans in 2019, what remains is a walled-off necropolis, with its population ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
