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1 Dead in Attic is a collection of stories by Times-Picayune columnist Chris Rose, recounting the first harrowing year and a half of life in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. Celebrated as a local treasure and heaped with national praise, Rose provides a rollercoaster ride of observation, commentary, emotion, tragedy, and even humor—in a way that only he could find in a devastated wasteland.

They are stories of the dead and the living, stories of survivors and believers, stories of hope and despair. And stories about refrigerators.

1 Dead in Attic freeze-frames New Orleans, caught between an old era and a new, during...

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Overview

1 Dead in Attic is a collection of stories by Times-Picayune columnist Chris Rose, recounting the first harrowing year and a half of life in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. Celebrated as a local treasure and heaped with national praise, Rose provides a rollercoaster ride of observation, commentary, emotion, tragedy, and even humor—in a way that only he could find in a devastated wasteland.

They are stories of the dead and the living, stories of survivors and believers, stories of hope and despair. And stories about refrigerators.

1 Dead in Attic freeze-frames New Orleans, caught between an old era and a new, during its most desperate time, as it struggles out of the floodwaters and wills itself back to life.

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The physical and psychic dislocation wrought by Hurricane Katrina is painstakingly recollected in this brilliant collection of columns by award-winning New Orleans Times Picayunecolumnist Rose (who has already hand-sold 60,000 self-published copies). After evacuating his family first to Mississippi and then to his native Maryland, Rose returned almost immediately to chronicle his adopted hometown's journey to "hell and back." Rose deftly sketches portraits of the living, from the cat lady who survives the storm only to die from injuries sustained during a post-hurricane mugging, to the California National Guard troops who gratefully chow down on steaks Rose managed to turn up in an unscathed French Quarter freezer. He's equally adept at evoking the spirit of the dead and missing, summed up by the title, quoting the entirety of an epitaph spray painted on one home. Although the usual suspects (FEMA and Mayor Ray Nagin, among others) receive their fair share of barbs, Rose's rancor toward the powers that be is surprisingly muted. In contrast, he chronicles his own descent into mental illness (and subsequent recovery) with unsparing detail; though his maniacal dedication to witnessing the innumerable tragedies wrought by "The Thing" took him down a dark, dangerous path ("three friends of mine have, in fact, killed themselves in the past year"), it also produced one of the finest first-person accounts yet in the growing Katrina canon. (Aug.)

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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9781416552987
  • Publisher: Simon & Schuster
  • Publication date: 8/21/2007
  • Edition description: Reprint
  • Pages: 384
  • Sales rank: 123,752
  • Product dimensions: 5.50 (w) x 8.40 (h) x 1.10 (d)

Meet the Author

Chris Rose is a columnist for The Times-Picayune in New Orleans, an essayist for The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, and a frequent commentator for National Public Radio's Morning Edition. In 2006, he was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Distinguished Commentary in recognition of his Katrina columns and was awarded a share in the Times-Picayune staff's Pulitzer for Public Service. Rose lives in New Orleans with his three children.

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Introduction

Writing an introduction for a book like this is tricky business.

Intros I have read over the years are generally composed of personal anecdotes and references to the body of work that follows. But, in this case, what follows is the personal work, the veil pulled away, the soul of a city — and a writer — laid bare.

Newspaper reporters are used to covering death and disaster — it's our bread and butter — but nothing prepares you to do it in your own town. Usually, we parachute into trouble, fill our notebooks, and then hightail it back to the comfort of our homes and offices.

Katrina changed all that.

Our comfort zones disappeared, turned into rubble, wastelands, and ghost towns. I went from being a detached entertainment columnist to a soldier on the front line of a battle to save a city, a culture, a newspaper, my job, my home.

Whether we won or lost the war remains to be seen. New Orleans is still a work in progress. The observations, lamentations, and ruminations that follow are the story so far, as it unfolded to me in the first sixteen months after the flood.

It's probably too emotional for conventional newspaper work. Too sentimental. Too angry. And way too self-absorbed, particularly for someone who weathered the storm remarkably well — in a material sense, at least (I suffered a broken screen door and a loose gutter) — and whose career not only survived the storm, but actually thrived in the aftermath.

I got a book deal, a movie deal, a Pulitzer Prize, dinner with Ted Koppel, and a mention in the social column of The Washington Times. If that ain't Making The Grade, then I don't know what is.

Natural disasters are a good career move for a man in my line of work.

But you didn't have to lose your house, your car, your dog, your job, your marriage, or your grandparents in an attic to suffer the impact of this storm. Unfortunately, most folks around south Louisiana and Mississippi did lose some or all of this.

Others lost less tangible assets: their peace of mind, security, serenity, ability to concentrate, notions of romance, sobriety, sanity, and hope.

The toll it took on me is in the book; I'll not belabor it here other than to say Katrina beat the shit out of me. It beat the shit out of everyone I know. This is our story.

In the winter of 2006, I self-published a collection of my post-Katrina columns from The Times-Picayune, a slim volume of love letters to New Orleans, howls of protest, cries for help, and general musings on the surrealistic absurdities of life in a post-Apocalyptic landscape.

I called it 1 Dead in Attic, a phrase I saw painted on the front of a house in the city's 8th Ward; words that haunted me then, and haunt me still.

Within six months, I ran through five printings of the book, collected great reviews from publications large and small, and sold 65,000 copies. I'm a neophyte in the world of independent publishing, but I'm told that's a real good number for a self-published volume. In fact, it's a good number for any volume.

And that's how the book came to attention of Simon & Schuster. I was preparing a follow-up to Dead in Attic, another collection of stories that I was going to call The Purple Upside-Down Car, a declarative observation my four-year-old son made from our car during a tour of the Lower 9th Ward that I clung to as the perfect metaphor for the whole of New Orleans and not just some wasted, toppled vehicle lying in a field of debris down on — get this — Flood Street.

The irony in this place could kill you.

Simon & Schuster bought the rights to Dead in Attic and the as-yet-unpublished Purple Upside-Down Car and we put them together and that's what you're holding in your hands. Faced with two titles but only one book, we went with the former because it already has brand recognition and because, well... the other one kind of sounds precariously like a Dr. Suess book.

This book takes the reader up to New Year's Day, 2007. A lot has happened since then, to the city, to me. On the eve of publication, I split with my wife of eleven years and went to rehab for an addiction to prescription painkillers, which I turned to in my ongoing struggles with anxiety and depression.

It would be easy to lay this blood on the hands of Katrina, though there is more, much more, to the story.

There always is.

But I guess that's the next chapter, the next story. The next book.

— Chris Rose

New Orleans, June, 2007

Table of Contents


Introduction     XV
Who We Are     1
Early Days
Facing the Unknown     7
The First Time Back     10
Survivors     13
Life in the Surreal City     16
Hope     19
Rita Takes Aim     22
The Empty City     25
God and Strippers     28
The More Things Change     31
Enough to Feed an Army     34
Tough Times in the Blue Tarp Town
Blue Roof Blues     41
The Smell     44
The Elephant Men     48
Mad City     51
1 Dead in Attic     56
Despair     61
The Ties That Bind
My Introduction to New Orleans     67
The Funky Butt     72
The Hurricane Kids     75
Traveling Man     78
Have Barbie, Will Travel     81
Prep Boys and Jesuits     84
Good-bye     89
Groundhog Day     92
Coming Home     95
Life in the Refrigerator City
Civil Unrest     101
Refrigerator Town     105
Lurching Toward Babylon     107
The Cat Lady     110
Caving In     113
The Magnet Man     116
The Last Ride     119
Lights in the City     123
Let the Good Times Roll     127
Our Katrina Christmas     131
Tears, Fears, and a New Year     134
Misadventures in the Chocolate City
Chocolate City     141
Tutti-Frutti     145
He Had a Dream     147
He's Picking the Pairs for Nola's Ark     150
Rider on the Storm     153
Car 54, Where Are You?     156
Not in My Pothole     160
Survive This     163
Love Among the Ruins
September Never Ends     169
The Muddy Middle Ground     172
Misery in the Melting Pot     176
The End of the World     181
A Huck Finn Kind of Life     187
Our Very Scary Summer     192
Songs in the Key of Strife     196
The End of the Line     200
We Raze, and Raise, and Keep Pushing Forward     210
Echoes of Katrina in the Country     215
The Purple Upside-Down Car
Second Line, Same Verse     221
Don't Mess with Mrs. Rose     226
Shooting the Rock     229
The City That Hair Forgot     233
A Rapturous Day in the Real World     238
Big Daddy No Fun     243
Peace Among the Ruins     247
Artful Practicality     250
"She Rescued My Heart"     253
Miss Ellen Deserved Better     257
Things Worth Fighting For
Rebirth at the Maple Leaf     267
Melancholy Reveler     270
They Don't Get Mardi Gras, and They Never Will     274
Reality Fest     278
Love Fest     281
O Brothers, Where Be Y'all?     285
Funeral for a Friend     289
Thanks, We Needed That     292
Say What's So, Joe     296
A Night to Remember     301
Eternal Dome Nation     308
Falling Down
On the Inside Looking Out     317
A City on Hold     320
A Tough Nut to Crack     323
Hell and Back     327
Letters from the Edge     340
Where We Go From Here
Children of the Storm, It's Time to Represent     347
Thank You, Whoever You Are     353
A New Dawn     358
Acknowledgments     363

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  • Posted November 3, 2008

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    This is one of the most touching, heart breaking and inspiring books I've read in a long time. I suggest it for anyone with the slightest amount of curiosity about what happened during Hurricane Katrina. Please read.

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  • Posted October 25, 2008

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    Chris Rose touches your heart with this book

    Chris lets you into the world of New Orleans after Katrina. His humor, compassion and love of his city make you realize that we must support and rebuild this wonderful city. Each chapter tells a different story and at the end of the book you are wanting more.

    God bless Chris for sharing his life after Katrina.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted May 5, 2008

    Laugh and Cry

    This book is a very accurate thought process of what we were all thinking in the aftermath of Katrina. We didn't really know whether to laugh or cry at some situations. Didn't do any good to cry, so we just plugged along. Chris Rose gave a very humanistic view of our frail state at that time. At times I cried while reading his descriptions and sometimes I laughed out loud or grinned and those around me understood why when I read it outloud to them. I sincerely enjoyed this book!

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  • Anonymous

    Posted April 7, 2008

    At times as powerful as Katrina herself...

    This collection of columns by Times-Picayune columnist Chris Rose chronicles with heartbreaking detail the impact of Hurricane Katrina on the city of New Orleans and on Rose himself. As with all anthologies, the entries are uneven in both tone and quality. Some will elict a chuckle, some a shrug and too many will leave you with tears welling up in your eyes. But on balance this book eloquently captures the lingering delicate balance that exists in post-Katrina New Orleans between hope and despair. The introduction written by Rose is important as it briefly touches on the toll the storm and the job of covering this story took on him and his family. I imagine that his personal troubles are like many thousands of others. It is a potent and compelling book that I would strongly recommend to everyone especially people travelling to New Orleans.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted February 10, 2008

    The only book on Katrina Id tell a friend to read.

    Only a person who lives in New Olreans and loves New Orleans could write a book like this. If you really wanna know what it was (and is) like there after 'it', read this book!

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  • Anonymous

    Posted February 12, 2008

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    This book is an accurate description of the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. If anyone wants an idea of what New Orleans and the surrounding area was like this is it. Chris Rose has done an excellent job at describing the tragedy we endured and are still enduring yet he does it with class. He just tells things as he seen/witnessed/experienced it. This description is accurate without being grotesque, although he could have been. Anyone from New Orleans should read this, this is about our city, our history, our lives. I cry and laugh at this truly amazing book.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted January 6, 2008

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    I read this book in 2 days. It is the best post-Katrina book I've seen so far. It's a chronicle of the days and months after the storm that only a local could really put into words. It was both sad and laugh out loud funny at times. It's a must read for anyone who wants to get a glimpse of how the people from New Orleans really feel about their devestated hometown and why we stay.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted October 22, 2007

    A Local Voice Given to a Local Disaster A++++

    If you love New Orleans, this is the book to read!On my first visit back to NOLA after Katrina, I was told by a local that this was the definitive voice of how New Orleanians have felt after Katrina, so I made it a point to read this book as soon as I returned. I am so glad I did. Everyone who loves New Orleans - and even those who do not - should read this book instead of listening to those who think THEY know New Orleans (politicians, FEMA, etc...). Thank you, Chris Rose. REBUILD NEW ORLEANS!

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  • Anonymous

    Posted November 8, 2007

    Poignant and Astonishingly Funny

    Can't praise this book enough, it chronicles real life in New Orleans from the day after the storm. This book was assigned to incoming freshman at Tulane University this fall, and it certainly surprised many with it's personal eye-witness account of a great city under extreme conditions. Very well written, insightful, powerful while at the same time striking the perfect chord between pathos and giddy insanity that is New Orleans - - - full of the charm and characters the flood couldn't scour away - - - like he said, you can't make this stuff up. Most helpful is the author's clear discription of where and why the system failed America's greatest city and why the rest of us should care. Also explores the issue of coping with depression when everyone else you see is suffering from the same. This is a treasure of a book and I plan on giving it to all my friends for Christmas. It's just incredible.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted September 5, 2007

    THE best book to read about H. Katrina

    You won't learn how little storms off the coast of Africa become overblown hurricanes in the Gulf of Mexico, or the effect the Bermuda Low has on the late summer weather of south Louisiana. But you will experience life in New Orleans post-K despite inept governments at all levels and the recently (about 2 yrs.) completed federal levee 'protection' system in the city.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted September 3, 2006

    poignant and accurate

    It is difficult for me to discuss the events in and surrounding this book. That is why i am so glad Chris Rose is around to tell the world how I feel. If you love New Orleans... if you love the juxtaposition between seemingly unrelated objects, if you love to see the beauty in the mundane, if you look around you and want to laugh and cry at the tragic beauty of the world... you will love this book.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted August 26, 2006

    Now I remember why I'm still here....

    I was doubting why we still live here... After reading this book I remember why my family still does. Those who continually ask us 'why' either you have never visited New Orleans or you are used to quitting.... Proud to be home...

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  • Anonymous

    Posted August 29, 2006

    Couldn't put this one down.

    I picked this one up at the airport in New Orleans. After coming back to visit the area a year later and seeing everything that still needs to be done. You can still see some of these images that Chris Rose describes in this book. For those of us not living there then or now it really gives you a perspective of just how dire things really were.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted May 28, 2006

    GOTTA READ IT

    I couldn't put this book down. I cried over this whole mess all over again. I laughed until I cried as well. This book perfectly represents the heart of this city. Go Saints!

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  • Anonymous

    Posted May 2, 2006

    Great Writing that Captures NOLA's True Spirit

    I purchased this book in Metarie when I was down in NOLA cooking for volunteers. It really captures the essence of the soul of New Orleans and puts very succinctly how everyone we met felt about their city, their government, and their neighbors. A must read for everyone with a heart!

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  • Anonymous

    Posted June 26, 2006

    Gary - A New Orleans Native

    Mr. Rose truly tells the story of how things were here after 'The Thing'. He managed to pull more tears out of me, when I thought there were none left.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted March 24, 2006

    The Truth Brilliantly Told

    For those who think it was just an interesting interlude on CNN, read this book. Understand this city. Care. We have to as a nation, because our government clearly does not. The scope of the damage is unimaginable. This book helps you to grasp the spirit of one of the most incredible cities in America. We have to protect her. We must not forget that she still needs our help.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted March 21, 2006

    Second only to an actual visit

    I just got back from a mission trip rebuilding houses in Slidell and hearing the stories of friends in New Orleans. This book captures the experience and I have purchased one for every member of my mission team.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted March 18, 2006

    Great Book!

    It has all the good qualities in a book..you can't put it down. It is really good therapy for New Orleanians!!

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    Posted March 6, 2006

    A Must Read

    Accurate account of days and months following Hurricane Katrina and the devastation in New Orleans. Chris lives it and tells it like it is !!

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