We received a very nice email the other day from Tom Piazza, the author of the powerful new book City of Refuge. This is a novel about the terrible days of Hurricane Katrina and the struggles of families in New Orleans during the storm. (Tom also wrote one of my favorite books of all time called Why New Orleans Matters which is a non-fiction account of Hurricane Katrina.)
A few days ago on our blog, I posted a story about how our small group class will be studying City of Refuge and using the Study Guide for it which I co-authored with Rachel Nicolosi of the Literacy Alliance of Greater New Orleans and Shannan Cvitanovic of YES (YMCA Educational Services). By chance, Tom read our blog post (see Oct. 15) and sent us an email expressing his appreciation. I felt that our students and our blog readers would like reading about this; so, I asked Tom if I could reprint an excerpt from his email. He said yes; and so, here is some of what Tom wrote to us:
"Just wanted to wave at you from Chicago (still on tour) and say how meaningful it was to see that blog entry, with the photo, about the literacy program you're involved in. I really feel honored that my book has been selected as a vehicle for people to expand their experience of the world through reading. Hard to convey in an e-mail, but that meant a lot... "
Thanks again, Tom, for the very thoughtful email. City of Refuge was chosen to be the book for the One Book One New Orleans program this year. We will be seeing a lot more about the book and Tom on this blog later on, so stay tuned. I also hope to include in our class discussions some selected passages from Why New Orleans Matters for our SVDP-ALC students to analyze and learn from.
-- Adrian
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