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Behind the Waterline

Name: Behind the Waterline
Rating: 4.0 (4 reviews)
ISBN: 9781958888216

Kionna Walker LeMalle

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Winner of the Lee Smith Novel PrizeBehind the Waterline takes readers to the home of a teenager and his grandmother in a New Orleans neighborhood on the eve of Katrina, where there are few resources and little warning of what is about to happen, in this novel that mixes magical realism with reality.When Hurricane Katrina approaches New Orleans, teenaged Eric and his grandmother and many of their neighbors decide to ride out the storm. Kionna Walker LeMalle's masterful debut novel brings her readers, like the rising water, onto Eric's street in the Third Ward, where stranded dogs bark for a time, where neighbors are floating on doors, and where Eric and his grandmother must take refuge in his second floor bedroom. After days of heat, dwindling supplies, and relentless rising water, neighbors begin to disappear and Eric's grandmother, already known as an eccentric, begins to falter. It is then that Eric—in a dream, a hallucination, or...

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Year:

2022

Publisher:

Blair

Language:

English

ISBN 10:

2024047023

ISBN 13:

9781958888216