![]() ![]() ![]() Katrina was the definitive display of the unaccountable incompetence of the Bush Administration-and a stroke of racial catastrophe visible enough to catalyze, however subtly, the election of the first black President. Images like these, lately evoked again by the flooding of Houston after Hurricane Harvey, altered the course of American politics. “I saw an entire town demolished, people fighting over water, breaking open caskets searching for something that could help them survive,” she said in a 2011 interview with The Paris Review. After fleeing her grandmother’s flooding home, Ward and her family weathered the worst violence of the storm huddled in trucks spread across an otherwise empty field. In the late summer of 2005, the novelist Jesmyn Ward, a native of the Mississippi Gulf Coast, lived through Hurricane Katrina. ![]()
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