Tubby Meets Katrina [Hardcover]

New Orleans-based attorney and writer ANTHONY P. DUNBAR is the Lillian Smith Book Award-winning author of books about Mississippi, Appalachia, migrant workers, and the Southern labor movement as well as the acclaimed Tubby Dubonnet mystery series.Just when he thought it was safe to come back to New Orleans, Hurricane Katrina boils up a rich gumbo of trouble for lawyer Tubby Dubonnet. He rides out the storm okay, but then the levees break, the city floods, and he ends up with thousands of other refugees in the hellish Convention Center. In the chaos, an escaped psychopath assaults and then stalks Tubby’s daughter. The police are no help, and Tubby must use his wits and his connections to protect himself and his family while trying to restore his home and help bring his beloved city back to life. The fast-paced story includes incisive vignettes of the dangerous days just after Katrina hit and of the frustrating weeks that followed.Dunbar ushers in the era of Hurricane Katrina fiction. He scores an even more decisive bull's eye in his account of the disaster after the disaster—the sad carnival atmosphere in which residents of the Big Easy fight to reclaim their neighborhoods with little help from the government and plenty from casual employees sliding from one essential job to the next. The most unconvincing note is the suggestion that settling Bonner Rivette's hash will straighten things out. If only.Tony Dunbar, an attorney-writer in New Orleans, has done a masterful job of weaving his paunchy, easygoing attorney Tubby Dubonnet (from The Crime Czar, Lucky Man, and four others) into the nightmarish aftermath of Katrina ... Dunbar won a Lillian Smith Book Award, given for exceptional works about the South and civil rights, for 1971's Our Land, Too. His perspective shows in this, one of the first novels with a Katrina theme. When society is bitten back to the nub, the people with the least to lose lose the most. Dunbar illustra