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The Floating World : Book Club Kit by Babst, C. Morgan, 1980- author is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
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"Set in New Orleans, this important and powerful novel follows the Boisdore family . . . in the months after Katrina. A profound, moving and authentically detailed picture of the storm's emotional impact on those who lived through it." -- People In this dazzling debut about family, home, and grief, C. Morgan Babst takes readers into the heart of Hurricane Katrina and the life of a great city. As the storm is fast approaching the Louisiana coast, Cora Boisdore refuses to leave the city. Her parents, Joe Boisdore, an artist descended from freed slaves who became the city's preeminent furniture makers, and his white "Uptown" wife, Dr. Tess Eshleman, are forced to evacuate without her, setting off a chain of events that leaves their marriage in shambles and Cora catatonic--the victim or perpetrator of some violence mysterious even to herself. This mystery is at the center of Babst's haunting and profound novel. Cora's sister, Del, returns to New Orleans from the successful life she built in New York City to find her hometown in ruins and her family deeply alienated from one another. As Del attempts to figure out what happened to her sister, she must also reckon with the racial history
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Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Babst, C. Morgan, 1980- author
- Publisher
- Chapel Hill, North Carolina: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
- Published
- 2017
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781616205287
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Fiction, Historical Fiction
- Rating
- 3.65 / 5 (69 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14