{"id":42373,"date":"2017-10-19T00:02:47","date_gmt":"2017-10-19T06:02:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/?p=42373"},"modified":"2017-10-18T14:33:06","modified_gmt":"2017-10-18T20:33:06","slug":"c-morgan-babst-signing-the-floating-city-at-off-square-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/c-morgan-babst-signing-the-floating-city-at-off-square-books\/","title":{"rendered":"C. Morgan Babst Signing The Floating City at Off Square Books"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">A dazzling debut about family, home, and grief, <em>The Floating World<\/em> takes readers into the heart of <strong>Hurricane Katrina<\/strong> with the story of the Boisdor\u00e9s, whose roots stretch back nearly to the foundation of <strong>New Orleans<\/strong>. Though the storm is fast approaching the Louisiana coast, Cora, the family\u2019s fragile elder daughter, refuses to leave the city, forcing her parents, <strong>Joe Boisdor\u00e9<\/strong>, an artist descended from a freed slave who became one of the city\u2019s preeminent furniture makers, and his white \u201cUptown\u201d wife, <strong>Dr. Tess Eshleman<\/strong>, to evacuate without her,\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">setting off a chain of events that leaves their marriage in shambles and Cora catatonic\u2013the victim or perpetrator of some violence mysterious even to herself. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">This mystery is at the center of <strong>C. Morgan Babst<\/strong>\u2019s haunting, lyrical novel. Cora\u2019s sister, Del, returns to New Orleans from the life she has tried to build in <strong>New York City<\/strong> to find her hometown in ruins and her family deeply alienated from one another. As Del attempts to figure out what happened to her sister, she must also reckon with the racial history of the city, and the trauma of destruction that was not, in fact, some random act of God, but an avoidable tragedy visited upon New Orleans\u2019s most helpless and forgotten citizens. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">The Floating World is the Katrina story that needed to be told&#8211;one with a piercing, unforgettable loveliness and a nuanced understanding of this particular place and its tangled past, written by a New Orleans native who herself says that after Katrina, \u201cif you were blind, suddenly you saw.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">C. Morgan Babst will be signing <em>The Floating City<\/em> at <strong>Off-Square Books<\/strong> October 24, 2017 at 5 pm.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/TheLocalVoiceLigature-25web.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"25\" height=\"16\" class=\"size-full wp-image-14544 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/TheLocalVoiceLigature-25web.jpg?resize=25%2C16\" alt=\"The Local Voice Ligature\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A dazzling debut about family, home, and grief, The Floating World takes readers into the heart of Hurricane<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":253,"featured_media":42375,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2239],"tags":[448,602,3,753],"class_list":["post-42373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-literary-events","tag-off-square-books","tag-square-books","tag-the-local-voice","tag-tlv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/2017-10-18-babst.jpg?fit=620%2C349&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/253"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42373\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42375"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}