Look and Leave: Photographs and Stories from New Orleans's Lower Ninth Ward (Center Books on the American South Ser.)

As a participant in New Orleanss Look and Leave program, Jane Fulton Alt accompanied Lower Ninth Ward residents back to their homes for the first time since fleeing Hurricane Katrina. Alts photographs and stories reflect the intense drama of the epic loss this community endured while highlighting lasting hope and inspiration. It is through Alts social workers compassion and keen photographers eye that we are given a better understanding of what it meant to be a resident of the Lower Ninth Ward of New Orleans immediately following Hurricane Katrina.