1 Dead In Attic

1 Dead in Attic is a collection of stories by Times-Picayune columnist Chris Rose, recounting the first harrowing year and a half of life in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. Celebrated as a local treasure and heaped with national praise, Rose provides a rollercoaster ride of observation, commentary, emotion, tragedy, and even humor- in a way that only he could find in a devastated wasteland.

They are stories of the dead and the living, stories of the dead and the living, storiesof survivors and believers, stories of hop and despair. And stories about refrigerators.

1 Dead in Attic freeze- frames New Orleans, caught between an old era and a new, during its most desperate time, as it struggles out of the floodwaters and wills itself back to life.

Chris Rose is a columnist for The Times-Picayune in New Orleans, and essayist for The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, and a frequent commentator for National Public Radio's Morning Edition. In 2006, he was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prise for Distinguished Commentary in recgnition of his Katrina columns and was awarded a share in the Time-Picayune staff's Pulitzer for Public Service. Rose lives in New Orleans with his three children.