Behind the Waterline

Name: Behind the Waterline
Brand: John F Blair Publisher

John F Blair Publisher

Behind the WaterlineAuthor(s): Kionna Walker LeMalle\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: John F Blair Publisher, United States\nImprint: Carolina Wren Press\nISBN-13: 9781958888216, 978-1958888216\nSynopsis\nWINNER OF THE LEE SMITH NOVEL PRIZE\n\nBehind the Waterline takes readers to the home of a teenager and his grandmother in a New Orleans neighborhood on the eve of Katrina, where there are few resources and little warning of what is about to happen, in this novel that mixes magical realism with reality.\n\nWhen Hurricane Katrina approaches New Orleans, teenaged Eric and his grandmother and many of their neighbors decide to ride out the storm. Kionna Walker LeMalles masterful debut novel brings her readers, like the rising water, onto Erics street in the Third Ward, where stranded dogs bark for a time, where neighbors are floating on doors, and where Eric and his grandmother must take refuge in his second floor bedroom. After days of heat, dwindling supplies, and relentless rising water.