Review: Good Pirates of the Forgotten Bayous: Fighting to Save a Way of Life in the Wake of Hurricane Katrina

Good Pirates of the Forgotten Bayous: Fighting to Save a Way of Life in the Wake of Hurricane Katrina by Ken Wells

My rating: 4 of 5 stars



This is a really engrossing and affecting account of the Katrina event and post-Katrina recovery. Unlike much of what I have read, the focus here is not on the city of New Orleans, or the immediate environs like the Ninth Ward. The focus here is on the remote St. Bernard's Parish where the eye passed over. The author got to know people and their roles and lives, which accs the affecting death to the account.

I think the people and their stories are so good that if anything, the author could get out of the way a bit more. He seems to want to be a tad heavy handed in his descriptions, such as a setting sun has to be "light from a dying sun", etc.



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