Ward was one of the thousands of people who had to face the infamous Hurricane Katrina in the August of 2005. As a survivor of Hurricane Katrina, one can imagine that Ward must have been through a lot of traumatic and perspective-altering experiences. And she manages to do a wonderful job of incorporating a few things that she witnessed firsthand while adding the storyline of a teenage girl and her family’s struggles to capture the audiences’ attention. As one reads through the book, there is always the lingering feeling of how devastating the hurricane is going to be, and how drastically it is about to change the lives of the characters in the story. Since the story is only focused over the timespan of around a fortnight, one does not get a glimpse of the long-term effects the hurricane must have had on Esch and her
Ward was one of the thousands of people who had to face the infamous Hurricane Katrina in the August of 2005. As a survivor of Hurricane Katrina, one can imagine that Ward must have been through a lot of traumatic and perspective-altering experiences. And she manages to do a wonderful job of incorporating a few things that she witnessed firsthand while adding the storyline of a teenage girl and her family’s struggles to capture the audiences’ attention. As one reads through the book, there is always the lingering feeling of how devastating the hurricane is going to be, and how drastically it is about to change the lives of the characters in the story. Since the story is only focused over the timespan of around a fortnight, one does not get a glimpse of the long-term effects the hurricane must have had on Esch and her