in which the author discusses three recent non-fiction works in re: Hurricane Katrina.

Hurricane Katrina was bad. Real bad. The Katrina body count (<2000) can't compare with 9/11 (3000ish) or the War in Iraq (5130), but she (colloquially, Katrina is a "she," no?) reinvented the Gulf Coast by destroying it, sparking the greatest population shift since [...]