1 Dead in Attic

After Katrina

By: Chris Rose

Narrated by: Bronson Pinchot

1 Dead in Attic is a collection of stories by Times-Picayune columnist Chris Rose, recounting the first harrowing year and a half of life in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. Celebrated as a local treasure and heaped with national praise, Rose provides a roller-coaster ride of observation, commentary, emotion, tragedy, and even humor - in a way that only he could find in a devastated wasteland.

They are stories of the dead and the living, stories of survivors and believers, stories of hope and despair. And stories about refrigerators.

1 Dead in Attic freeze-frames New Orleans, caught between an old era and a new, during its most desperate time, as it struggles out of the floodwaters and wills itself back to life.

©2005, 2007 Times-Picayune Publishing Corp. (P)2014 Audible Inc.

One of my favorite audible books ever

This book is both irreverently funny and heartrendingly sad. The author mixes both cockeyed wit and pathos together to form an honest, recognizable depiction of life after Katrina for those who lived it and those who died in it, and most of all, for those who love New Orleans.

There is even a section on dealing with depression and PTSD.

Bronson Pinchot brings just the right note of weariness, sadness and non-apology to the reading.

Everyone should listen.

insightful

a great book for anyone who got all of their Katrina news from watching television. This will set you straight on the facts from the viewpoints of those who lived it.

Profound and Moving.

Extremely moving account of the year following hurricane Katrina and Chris Rose’s columns in the Times Picayune. Very well done, very sad, very moving, and so many wonderful characters. Highly recommend. Audible, do better. There were so many mispronunciations of important New Orleans Streets (too many to count!!) if I heard Tchoupitoulas mispronounced one more time I thought I was going to scream. New Orleans pronounces things differently. So please, do your research and find out that streets that sound like the city of Milan in Italy are actually pronounced Mylan. Or Prytania, Esplanade, Metairie, I could go on and on, so many mispronunciations. The reader was absolutely fantastic. It wasn’t his fault. But if you’re gonna have someone narrate a book about New Orleans, why don’t you find a local who knows how to pronounce things correctly.

If you where here you already knew.

I Enjoyed Chris Rose's writing in the past, but I had to stop listening to this audiobook. Did no one edit Bronson's performance? His pronunciation of street names and city names was atrocious. "Metairie" was "Mateary". "Severn" was not even close. Let's just forget about "Tchoupitoulas". The writing is great, but the narrator should visit and learn the local words.

Staggering chronicle

One of the most powerful things I’ve read or heard. It’s must for anyone who has had to start over, start anything or survive anything. Rose’s writing is eloquent yet unvarnished. Pinchot’s reading is in remarkable sync with the stories—he sounds like Rose himself, feeling every word. It will stay with you.