Originally Posted: September 9, 2015
‘Wading Home’: Opera explores the Katrina experience of a New Orleans family
“This is simply a wonderfully told, beautiful story and ought to be appealing to any reader who loves a wonderful story. It’s not about the disaster. This is a book about how as a consequence of the disaster people connect more deeply to their roots. I was drawn to how it drives these characters back to this piece of land and to their need to really reclaim home.” — David Haynes, director of creative writing and associate professor of English at SMU. “