<b>Now in paperback, <i>The </i></b><i><b>New York Times</b></i><b> best-selling graphic nonfiction masterpiece depicting the lives of seven New Orleanians before, during, and just after Hurricane Katrina.</b><br><i><b> </b><br>Best American Comics, 2010<br>Mother Jones Top Books of 2009<br>Daily Beast Recommends<br>New York Best Comics of 2009, Runner Up<br>MTV.com Best Nonfiction Comic of 2009<br>San Francisco Chronicle “Best in Comics”<br><br><br>A.D.: New Orleans After the Deluge</i> is a masterful portrait of a city under siege. Cartoonist Josh Neufeld depicts seven extraordinary true stories of survival in the days leading up to and following Hurricane Katrina. <br><br>Here we meet Denise, a counselor and social worker, and a sixth-generation New Orleanian; “The Doctor,” a proud fixture of the French Quarter; Abbas and Darnell, two friends who face the storm from Abbas' s family-run market; Kwame, a pastor's son just entering his senior year of high school; and the young couple Leo and Michelle, who both grew up in the city. Each is forced to confront the same wrenching decision–whether to stay or to flee. <br><br>As beautiful as it is poignant, <i>A.D.</i> presents a city in chaos and shines a bright, profoundly human light on the tragedies and triumphs that took place within it.