March 03, 2008
The New Yorker has published a Fiction piece:
“Leaving for Kenosha”
by Richard Ford
Short story, set in New Orleans on the second anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, in which a father takes his teen-age daughter to the Lower Ninth Ward to say goodbye to a classmate who is moving to Wisconsin.
“..It was the anniversary of the disaster. Walter Hobbes was on his way uptown to pick up his daughter, Louise, at Trinity. She had the dentist at four. Then the two of them were going for a hilariously early dinner at the place Louise liked—Papa Andre’s—out on the Chef Highway, a roadhouse on stilts that the flood had missed. Then they were going back to his condo for her homework and a Bill Murray movie. This was New Orleans. It was the anniversary of the disaster. Walter Hobbes was on his…”
Click HERE to read LEAVING FOR KENOSHA
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