I have stopped reading on the last page of Part 1 and I have fallen completely in love with New Orleans. Unfortunately I have this sinking feeling that once I turn the page I will have to suffer through its destruction. Katrina has been mentioned briefly throughout the text, but only in reference to particular events. Instead the text has been concentrating on the culture and reality of New Orleans. Rather than sugar coat the city and write over one hundred pages of a travel article, we have heard of its beauty, spirit, severe poverty levels, horrendous crimes and the dishonesty of some of the states finest. Part 1 has been believable. To love New Orleans is to accept its negative aspects with the positive and adore it despite them. Piazza clearly loves New Orleans. He understands that no place is without its faults. Poverty and violence are part of its spirit. He did not leave them out of his description. It makes it very easy for the reader to honestly fall in love with the city as well. I'm terrified about what will happen to the people and places that I have learned so much about.
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