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After the Storm

Natasha Trethewey

When the storm hit, Aesha was living in a lovely apartment atop a law firm just off the Pass Road in Gulfport. A legal secretary at another firm, sheโ€™d...

War Games

Natasha Trethewey

Summertime on Mama Bellโ€™s back stoop,it always started with someone saying,ย โ€œYour mama donโ€™t wear no drawersโ€โ€”school kids playing the dozensโ€” and weโ€™d fall over laughing, pretendingย to look up some...

Zebra

Natasha Trethewey

Up and down the oneway streetsย of houses huddled deep and closeย together, sycamores, live oaksย brace up to the concrete, break through,ย their dark roots surfacing, disruptingย the order of a New Orleans...