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Riding through Katrina with the Red Baron's Ghost : A Memoir of Friendship, Family, and a Life Writing - J. Malcolm Garcia

Riding through Katrina with the Red Baron's Ghost

A Memoir of Friendship, Family, and a Life Writing

By: J. Malcolm Garcia

Hardcover | 21 August 2018

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The first book that J. Malcolm Garcia ever bought would impact his life in a way that the then twelve-year-old could have never imagined. The Day the Red Baron Died plunged Garcia into the intrigue and excitement of the World War I German flying ace's life and death. Garcia was enraptured and brimming with questions. His mother encouraged the curious boy to write to the book's author, Dale M. Titler. When the author replied, a friendship began that shaped Garcia's life.

In Riding through Katrina with the Red Baron's Ghost, Garcia chronicles his relationship with Titler. It was that connection that brought Garcia to New Orleans only two weeks after Hurricane Katrina devastated the city and its citizens. Not having heard from his friend in years, Garcia made the split-second decision to go to New Orleans to try to find the man who meant so much to him.

A harrowing account of New Orleans directly after Katrina-told in Garcia's award-winning journalistic style-Riding through Katrina with the Red Baron's Ghost tells a personal story of a thirty-year bond that defined a young man, as well as the universal story of the horror and devastation Katrina left in its wake.

Industry Reviews
Praise for J. Malcolm Garcia:

"Malcolm Garcia . . . continually astounds me with his energy and empathy. . . . I've been following him wherever he goes." -Dave Eggers

"Garcia is an exceptionally powerful voice on behalf of the people about whom he writes." -Dale Maharidge, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of And Their Children After Them

"J. Malcolm Garcia is the keeper of forgotten stories." -Fatima Bhutto, author of Songs of Blood and Sword: A Daughter's Memoir
Praise for J. Malcolm Garcia:

"Malcolm Garcia . . . continually astounds me with his energy and empathy. . . . I've been following him wherever he goes." -Dave Eggers

"Garcia is an exceptionally powerful voice on behalf of the people about whom he writes." -Dale Maharidge, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of And Their Children After Them

"J. Malcolm Garcia is the keeper of forgotten stories." -Fatima Bhutto, author of Songs of Blood and Sword: A Daughter's Memoir

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