Zane is twelve, visiting a great-grandmother he has just met in New Orleans, when Katrina arrives. He goes back for his dog and ends up in the flooded city with a musician and a small girl.
Written for middle grade and noticeably unwilling to lie to that audience. The Superdome, the bodies, the fact that help did not come for days and that who it came for first was not random.
The dog is the device that keeps a twelve-year-old moving through a disaster, and it works.
Read December 2024.
