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Natasha Trethewey

Beyond Katrina

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  • Menna Abu Zahrahas quoted4 years ago
    Talbot Brewer and the Page-Barbour Lecture Series at the University of Virginia where, in 2007, I presented some sections of this book.
  • Menna Abu Zahrahas quoted4 years ago
    Thanks also to the Virginia Quarterly Review, in whose pages some of this work first appeared, and to Professor
  • Menna Abu Zahrahas quoted4 years ago
    There are many people to whom I owe a great deal of thanks: Ted Genoways, editor of the Virginia Quarterly Review, without whose ideas and encouragement this book would never have been written; Erika Stevens, editor at the University of Georgia Press, whose vision, compassion, and empathy guided me through to the final word; my agent, Rob McQuilkin, whose advice is always just right; Aesha Qawiy, Tamara Jones, Susan Glisson, Tayari Jones, and D. Allen Mitchell—a congregation of supporters whose knowledge and generosity kept me going and who were always willing to talk through anything I asked; all the folks in Mississippi, some named in these pages and some not, who answered graciously my many questions; my husband, Brett, whose ongoing support is immeasurable; and finally, my brother Joe—whose story was always the story.
  • Menna Abu Zahrahas quoted4 years ago
    a few awkward steps at first until
    he got it—how to hold up the too-big pants
    with one hand, and in the other
    carry everything else he had.
  • Menna Abu Zahrahas quoted4 years ago
    The clothes he wore seemed to belong
    to someone else, like hand-me-downs
    given a child who will one day
    grow into them
  • Menna Abu Zahrahas quoted4 years ago
    I recall little else of that day—not the drive to the airport or our short flight back to Atlanta, nor what we did the rest of the evening. Mostly I see the way my brother raised his hand, leaving the courtroom, his back to us—a slight movement, not unlike the fulfillment of my own stalled gesture—as if he were pointing to a destination, some place not far up the road.
  • Menna Abu Zahrahas quoted4 years ago
    what to say. All the clichés come to me now: a stone’s throw away, as the crow flies, and—finally—you can’t get there from here; the library had been destroyed by Hurricane Katrina. Even now, as I write, it hasn’t been rebuilt.
  • Menna Abu Zahrahas quoted4 years ago
    The downtown branch of the Gulfport public library was only a few blocks away, and for a moment I stood there, my hand in the air—a gesture like the beginning of a benediction—before I could think of
  • Menna Abu Zahrahas quoted4 years ago
    Nodding, I turned in the direction of the beach to point them toward it, raising my hand before I caught myself
  • Menna Abu Zahrahas quoted4 years ago
    The simplest of human interactions, like a greeting, it can change the course of a day
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