Babylon Rolling Author:Amanda Boyden From the author of the acclaimed debut Pretty Little Dirty comes a complex, seductive novel about race and culture, set in New Orleans. — Babylon Rolling is a glittering, gritty, unflinching novel of five families living along an Uptown block in the year before Hurricane Katrina. Told in numerous voices, it explores what happens whe... more »n forces collide in the boozy, humid city that care forgot. At once an exploration of ethnicity and a portrait of a city on the edge of annihilation, Babylon Rolling is a brave and masterful novel.« less
Really liked this book, though maybe not quite as much as her first novel "Pretty Little Dirty". Was particularly enjoyable being a New Orleans ex-pat; she really captures the essence and strangeness of the city.