Tom Piazza: 4 books
Devil Sent the Rain
Music and Writing in Desperate America
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2011
“WhateverTom Piazza writes is touched with magic." —Douglas Brinkley
Acclaimed author Tom Piazza follows hisprize-winning novel City of Refuge and the post-Katrinaclassic Why New Orleans Matters with a dynamic collection ofessays and journalism about American music and American...
by Tom Piazza
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
Every place has its history. But what is it about New Orleans that makes it more than just the sum of the events that have happened there? What is it about the spirit of the people who live there that could produce a music, a cuisine, an architecture, a total environment, the mere mention of which...
City of Refuge
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2009
In the heat of late summer, two New Orleans families—one black and one white—confront a storm that will change the course of their lives.
SJ Williams, a carpenter and widower, lives and works in the Lower Ninth Ward, the community where he was born and raised. His sister, Lucy, is a soulful...
A Free State
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
The author of City of Refuge returns with a startling and powerful novel of race, violence, and identity set on the eve of the Civil War.
The year is 1855. Blackface minstrelsy is the most popular form of entertainment in a nation about to be torn apart by the battle over slavery. Henry Sims,...