‘Nine Lives' an engrossing microlook at New Orleans - book review | JournalStar.com

("Nine Lives: Death and Life in New Orleans" by Dan Baum, Spiegel and Grau, 2009, 323 pages, $26).

Is "Nine Lives" about New Orleans or is it about people who live in New Orleans? Readers will have to make their own decisions.

In this extension of a profile series he wrote for the New Yorker, Dan Baum looks at nine real-life citizens of New Orleans, following them in vivid detail from 1965 (roughly the time of Hurricane Betsy) to 2007 and the aftermath of Katrina.

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