Rise Up A Novel About The 1947 Texas City Explosion: A Novel about the 1947 Texas City Explosion

On April 16, 1947, a devastating series of explosions at the docks in Texas City, Texas, killed 576 people, injured more than 3,000, and almost destroyed the soul of an entire town.

RISE UP, a novel about this well-known disaster, epitomizes the courage, resilience and determination of

the ordinary people who lived there: Louis Broussard, who owns a ship supply business and struggles with the memory of his overbearing father. Clayton Malveaux, a young Black man who works on the docks and figh...