Heart Like Water by Joshua Clark is so far the most admired of all Hurricane Katrina books, and the only memoir from a resident who never left New Orleans, one that contains hundreds of Hurricane Katrina survivor stories.

In the growing constellation of Katrina stories, Joshua Clark’s masterful fiction shines to the brightest. The Apocalypse destroyed a city and ripped to shreds lives, but the legibility of its deep inner impact had to wait for this book, which is a love story.

Clark’s book is our Love in a Time of Cholera, yet, even more than Marquez novel, it is immediate and wrenching and true, while its rhythms, like Marquez’, are nothing short of majestic. Josh Clark has written the great non-fiction New Orleans novel, a book that’s here to stay.” –Andrei Codrescu.

Heart Like Water author Joshua Clark also newly wrote a very personal feature for Consumer Affairs on Louisiana’s disappearing wetlands called “The End of the World”.