The Continuing Storm: Learning from Katrina

The final volume in the award-winning Katrina Bookshelf series reflects upon what we have learned about Katrina and about America. Kai Erikson and Lori Peek expand our view of the disaster by assessing its ongoing impact on individual lives and across the wide-ranging geographies where displaced New Orleanians landed after the storm. Such an expanded view, the authors argue, is critical for understanding the human costs of catastrophe across time and space. Concluding with a broader examination of disasters in the years since Katrina—including COVID-19— is a sobering meditation on the duration of a catastrophe that continues to exact steep costs in human suffering.