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The House on First Street
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After fifteen years of living like a vagabond on her reporter's schedule, Julia Reed got married and bought a house in the historic Garden District of New Orleans. Four weeks after she moved in, Hurricane Katrina struck.
Rich with sumptuous details and with the author's trademark humor,
is the chronicle of a remarkable and often hilarious homecoming, as well as a thoroughly original tribute to our country's most original city.
"What emerges from a heartrending, soul-stirring, rib-tickling and palate-prickling banquet of details is why Ms. Reed cannot leave New Orleans: love. It's an undeceived devotion to a place and particularity that is admirable, and almost astonishing, in our increasingly deracinated culture." —Wall Street Journal
"Reed shares this sliver of her life with a light, conversational tone, and though somewhat tangential, she conveys the richness of pace and flavor of the Big Easy as life gets back to 'normal' without pretense." —Christian Science Monitor
"Reed is a breezy writer who nicely captures the despair and elation of seeing the city slowly come back to life." —
"With her usual keen eye for the quirky and outrageous, Reed finds much to amuse the reader in this delightful volume." —Cokie Roberts, ABC and NPR News, author of
"With great literary panache and a throaty humor, Julia Reed captures the magical allure of the city, its food and its people . . . destined to be a classic." —Walter Issacson, bestselling author of
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“Julia visited New Orleans for a story and fell in love. She moved into an apartment and pretty much never left. She loves the food, the culture and the eccentricity of the city. Later on, she buys her own house and the trials and tribulations of trying to remodel a house on top of a hurricane takes over her life.
This book was part restaurant review, part house renovation nightmares and part culture of New Orleans. I loved the culture part, but also have to remember this is told from the perspective of an extremely wealthy white woman.”
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