5/23/2023 0 Comments Ninth ward book reviewUnfortunately, though, romanticized depictions such as this one threaten to undermine our collective sense of the true plight of pre- and post-Katrina Ninth Ward residents. Rhodes’s characters are likable and her story gripping. The two children must confront not only the intense storm and Mama Ya-Ya’s death but rapidly rising flood waters to survive. Knowing she herself will soon die, Mama Ya-Ya decides to wager that Lanesha’s talents, both her supernatural skills and her more commonplace pluck and creativity, will see the young girl and her friend TaShon through Hurricane Katrina safely. Mama Ya-Ya knows it will get bad, but she has no means to get Lanesha out of the city. Their exquisitely happy, though poor, life in the New Orleans Ninth Ward is disrupted by news of a powerful storm approaching. Born with a caul, 12-year-old Lanesha can see and sometimes communicate with spirits, and her guardian, former midwife Mama Ya-Ya, has dreams and visions that foretell the future.
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