CITY OF REFUGE to be published August 19, 2008

A panoramic novel of two New Orleans families whose lives are torn apart by Hurricane Katrina and then stitched back together, City of Refuge will be published by Harper on August 19, 2008. Richard Russo, the Pulitzer prize winning author of Empire Falls, wrote, “To read City of Refuge is to realize that this is what fiction is for: to take us to places the cameras can't go.  The novel's characters--and what happens to them--are unforgettable.” For more advance quotes from Richard Ford, Mary Gaitskill, Douglas Brinkley and others, go here. For dates and locations on the fall book tour, go here.

WHY NEW ORLEANS MATTERS to be released in paperback

Why New Orleans Matters is being reprinted in paperback by Harper Perennial in August 2008. It contains a new afterword by Tom, in which he discusses the city’s progress and challenges in the three years since the failure of the levees in New Orleans.

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