I thoroughly enjoyed it, while Ashleigh thought it was the best book this group had yet read. That opinion might have been colored by the fact that she grew up near New Orleans, on the north shore of Lake Pontchartrain. In a house that withstood several floods before finally being condemned as uninhabitable. She felt that Dan Baum had truly captured the sense of the city. I appreciated the structure of the book - the slow arc from Betsy to Katrina, and afterwards, with the despair turning to a resolution to rebuild. I'd never known about the Mardi Gras Indians, and was surprised to realize how segregated New Orleans was.