| #3044603 in Books | 2015-07-28 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.00 x.61 x6.00l,1.34 | File type: PDF | 244 pages||2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.| Not just another Hurricane Katrina memoir|By Janine S.|Robbi Pounds carried me through the days and months after the storm as well as through a private tour of her pre-storm existence in Rubble Fever. While the topics can be sad and the anger of the post-storm destruction of NOLA infuriating, I was not left to marinate in my own experiences, but transported through personal lo|About the Author|Robbi Pounds grew up outside of Ocean Springs, Mississippi, where she was spoiled rotten by her two wonderful parents. As a first-generation college student attending on scholarship, she earned her BA in English at the University of Southern Mis
In Rubble Fever, Robbi Pounds artfully braids two stories--the coming and surviving of and the rebuilding after Hurricane Katrina, and the ways in which an only child in her late twenties copes with the illnesses and deaths, a few years earlier, of the parents she adores. Within those two stories are dozens of smaller tales, perfectly executed, involving scores of characters all vividly recreated, mostly in conversation in their own words. Pounds' wry, irreverent, freque...
You can specify the type of files you want, for your device.Rubble Fever | Robbi Pounds. A good, fresh read, highly recommended.