Hurricane Song
by Paul Volponi (Goodreads author!)
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Read in July, 2008
Volponi, Paul. 2008. Hurricane Song: A Novel of New Orleans.
"Miles has only been living with his musician father in New Orleans for two months when Hurricane Katrina hits--and they haven't really been getting along. His dad lives for jazz, while Miles's first love is football. But father and son must set aside their differences when they seek refuge in the crowded Superdome."
Need I say more? The above quote from the jacket says it all. Hurricane Katrina fictionalized through ...more
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Read in April, 2008
Miles Shaw loves football. He’s always lived in Chicago but now that his mother has remarried someone who has three kids the apartment is just too crowded so he’s moved to New Orleans to live with his jazz musician father. With Katrina coming they evacuate with Miles’ Uncle Roy but his car breaks down in the non moving traffic so they go to the Superdome where they face marauding gangs, including one made up of football players from Miles’s school. Pop and Roy have taken their instrument...more
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Read in August, 2008
recommends it for:
adults, YA and reluctant readers
Wow! Once again, Paul Volponi has written a stunningly awesome book and the horror of New Orleans and Hurricane Katrina is all too crushingly real from Miles' point of view. He has only been living with his jazz playing dad for a short time when he, his uncle and his dad take their possessions in a hefty bag and head for the Super Dome. I was afraid of the gangs preying upon the families, so sad for the meaningless deaths of so many and the squalor, and oppressive heat that they had to endure....more
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I will be recommending this book a lot. Told from the perspective of a 16-year-old African American guy living in New Orleans in 2005, it opens by putting the reader in the middle of the Superdome during Katrina: the suffocating heat, the overwhelming stench of feces, the utter darkness, and the gangs of thugs roaming to take what they can get from the citizens of New Orleans least able to protect themselves.
Volponi nails his character's voices, and the writing is spare but pitch perfect....more
Volponi nails his character's voices, and the writing is spare but pitch perfect....more
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The horrors of Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath told from the point-of-view of a young man struggling to connect with his father, who seems to love jazz more than he loves him. An unflinching look at an event that feels very real, told in easy-to-read, quick-moving, but eloquent language.
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Hurricane Katrina as seen through eyes of young man struggling with distance between himself and father who seems to love his trumpet and jazz more than he loves his son. Doesn't shy away from the extent of the horror--violence, death, inhumanity--but moves quickly and eloquently.
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This novel is about a young boy who moves to New Orleans to live with his dad 2 months before Katrina. It portrays the feelings of the people surviving the storm and the aftermath of Katrina. It helps understand the mindset of all sides of this horrific situation.
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Read in August, 2008
recommended to Laurie by:
http://www.chasingray.com/archives/2008/05/on_so_many_small_thin
Good choice for reluctant readers. (It's short. I've read a lot of too-long YA novels lately--and I'm not even counting Breaking Dawn. Figure out the story you want to tell and tell just that--that's what Volponi did here.) Sad and exciting, strong father-son plot.
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Read in July, 2008
recommends it for:
New Orleans, hurricanes, Hurricane Katrina, family, survival
Miles, his father and his uncle endure several days in the Superdome as Hurricane Katrina hits New Orleans.
I knew it was bad in there, but this novel gave me new insight as to what people had to endure. It's moving, frightening and eye-opening.
I knew it was bad in there, but this novel gave me new insight as to what people had to endure. It's moving, frightening and eye-opening.
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