Babst, C. Morgan (1980 -)

The floating world : a novel / C. Morgan Babst - First edition. - Chapel Hill, NC : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill , 2017 - 370 p. ; 24 cm.

When a fragile young woman refuses to leave New Orleans as Hurricane Katrina approaches, her parents are forced to go without her, setting off a chain of events that leaves their marriage in shambles and their daughter catatonic, the victim or perpetrator of some unknown violent act.


English.

9781616205287


Hurricane Katrina---2005----Fiction
Racially mixed families ----Fiction
Disaster victims---Family relationships---Louisiana---New Orleans----Fiction
Grief---Psychological aspects----Fiction


New Orleans (LA)----Fiction

PS3602.A23147 / F58 2017

FIC BAB