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Floating World
Floating World | C Morgan Babst
7 posts | 3 read | 27 to read
A dazzling debut about family, home, and grief, The Floating World takes readers into the heart of Hurricane Katrina with the story of the Boisdores, whose roots stretch back nearly to the foundation of New Orleans. Though the storm is fast approaching the Louisiana coast, Cora, the family's fragile elder daughter, refuses to leave the city, forcing her parents, Joe Boisdore, an artist descended from a freed slave who became one of the city's preeminent furniture makers, and his white "Uptown" wife, Dr. Tess Eshleman, to evacuate without her, setting off a chain of events that leaves their marriage in shambles and Cora catatonic--the victim or perpetrator of some violence mysterious even to herself. This mystery is at the center of C. Morgan Babst's haunting, lyrical novel. Cora's sister, Del, returns to New Orleans from the life she has tried to build in New York City 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's most helpless and forgotten citizens.The Floating World is the Katrina story that needed to be told--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, "if you were blind, suddenly you saw."
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8little_paws
The Floating World: A Novel | C. Morgan Babst
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There's a good story buried in here somewhere, but the plotting the author used didn't make it easy to empathize with the characters. And too many storylines thrown into one book. Pass on this one.

MicheleinPhilly Oh blerg. I bought this one a while ago during an insomnia 1-clicking spree. 😕 7y
8little_paws @MicheleinPhilly this was an ARC so maybe it got way revised?? 7y
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KendallMorganHall
The Floating World: A Novel | C. Morgan Babst
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I‘m having trouble getting into this one but I loved the description and really want to love it. Has anyone here read it? I‘d love to hear what you loved about it? Note: when I searched for it there were a few blurbs but no reviews.

8little_paws Just finished it, it was horribly edited. Too many plotlines, the plotting of the book was a mess. The characters were hard to empathise with. 7y
KendallMorganHall I‘m so glad to hear you say that! So it is not just me! I‘m going to give it another shot but I‘m finding it really confusing to get into. 7y
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8little_paws
The Floating World: A Novel | C. Morgan Babst
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It's a grab any old random book from your shelves and read it kinda day.

Zelma I need to to that more often. I spend way too much time choosing my next book when I could be reading it! 7y
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MicheleinPhilly
The Floating World: A Novel | C. Morgan Babst
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Insomnia 1-clicking. 😬#bookhaul

Ashley_Nicoletto Nasty Women is on my TBR for sure. The one click button though. 🙄 7y
MicheleinPhilly @Ashley_Nicoletto Right??? Because grabbing my Kindle with it's 200+ unread books on it from the nightstand would have been too much work. 😐 7y
Ashley_Nicoletto Why would you do that when you could buy more though? 😂😂😂 7y
AlaMich New books > old books 😆 7y
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Liberty
The Floating World: A Novel | C. Morgan Babst
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#RiotGrams, Day 12: Today's prompt is "book and library card." This is my current read and my library card. The card is boring, yes, but if you had a building this gorgeous, you'd put it on everything too. ? ? ❤️

alanacristin Wow, is that really your library building?! 😍 it looks like the setting for a book I'd love to read! 7y
Liberty @alanacristin It's gorgeous inside, too, like something in an Agatha Christie novel. 7y
alanacristin You continue to live the bookish good life, @Liberty! 💯 7y
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8leagueboot ALL the Rice Public Library love ❤ 7y
tapgurl It's way cooler than my library card! 7y
LeeRHarry No way is that library card boring......you should see mine ....😏 7y
TNbookworm Beautiful library card, would love to see the library! 7y
RadicalReader @Liberty love how cute and custom libraries are when it comes to their library cards! Makes it super easy to know where your card is when going through your wallet 7y
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MrBook
The Floating World: A Novel | C. Morgan Babst
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#TBRtemptation post 2! #BEA17 edition! Scheduled for an October 17th release. This debut novel is set in New Orleans during Hurricane Katrina, focusing on the Boisdorés family: Joe, a black artist; Dr. Tess, his white wife; Cora, their daughter who is a victim an act of violence that even she can't figure out; and Del, her sister who comes from NYC to help put the pieces back together. Dramatic & deep. #blameLitsy #blameMrBook ? #Coale photobomb

Lynnsoprano Interesting. Our son-in-law was in New Orleans during Katrina-tried to stay in his apartment. He has lots of stories, and has piqued my interest in that event. 7y
MrBook @Lynnsoprano This is right up your alley then 😁👏🏻👏🏻! This ARC was gobbled up by attendees within a couple minutes! Highly anticipated. 7y
Graciouswarriorprincess I have this on NetGalley and helped three times doing Katrina relief rebuilding homes. 7y
LitsyGoesPostal 😊👍🏻 7y
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Well-ReadNeck
Floating World | C Morgan Babst
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Recently requested this upcoming novel about the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina on #netgalley after reading about it on some upcoming releases lists. Fingers crossed 🤞🏼🤞🏼🤞🏼🤞🏼🤞🏼

#junebookbugs #floating

lynneamch I thought this one on the subject was really powerful 7y
Well-ReadNeck @lynneamch Thanks! Stacked!! 7y
Reviewsbylola This subject is of interest to me so I hope it is well written! And I agree about Zeitoun. Fantastic book. 7y
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