HEART LIKE WATER is now a Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award

Watch an exclusive interview with the author
which includes never-before-heard footage
of Clark's interviews, hilarious and horrific
alike, during Katrina's immediate aftermath.

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...Or download it into iTunes or on your iPod

A portion of the author's royalties will benefit KARES,
which raises funds to support the rebirth of
New Orleans' rich literary community.

French Quarter Fiction and other books edited by Joshua Clark.

"In the growing constellation of Katrina stories, Josh Clark's masterful tale shines brightest. The Apocalypse destroyed a city and ripped to shreds lives, but the legibility of its profound inner impact had to wait for this book, which is a love story. Clark's book is our 'Love in a Time of Cholera,' but, 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

"The pure verbal energy and steely clarity of Joshua Clark's account of out-lasting Hurricane Katrina makes his book much more than memoir and documentary -- both of which it profoundly is. Clark's narrative rises to the level of being a crucial witness to the city itself -- an indictment, indeed, but also a reveling, an elegy, a light forward to survival.”

—Richard Ford

Purchase the book from Amazon or Barnes & Noble or Octavia Books - a store that is an integral part of the New Orleans community and economy.

Read more about the most personal narrative and expansive oral history of Hurricane Katrina on Simon & Schuster's site HERE.

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Read the Times-Picayune review.

"Joshua Clark has written a poignant, evocative book about the city he loves. HEART LIKE WATER has the paradoxical ability to both uplift and haunt."

—Douglas Brinkley

“For those of us who still mourn and fear we will always mourn for our beloved New Orleans, Joshua Clark’s memoir of the terrible Katrina—for which he would not abandon the city—is a tough and beautiful thing. He has an eye and an ear for the crucial details and he is also a really fine writer. You will mourn anew reading this book, but it will help you heal.”

—Robert Olen Butler

"The scenes of physical devastation are matched by an uncompromising look at the emotional traumas that unfold in the storm's aftermath—yet through it all, Clark never fully abandons his sense of the absurd."

—From Publishers Weekly Starred Review.