We Hold Our Breath: A Journey to Texas Between Storms

by Fields, Micah
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ISBN: 9781324003793
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The city of Houston was designed not for stability but for profit. Micah Fields grew up in the waterlogged expanse that is the fourth-largest city in America, and when Hurricane Harvey made landfall in 2017, he set off from his home in Iowa to rescue his mother. She was one of thousands of residents hell-bent on staying in Houston no matter how many feet of rain surged in from the Gulf. The first denizens of Houston tamed the Brazos River into submission and constructed a dense web of suburbs that give the city a sprawling, centerless energy. Fields writes about the artists, immigrants, and everyday residents who define the culture of Houston. In prose at once lyrical and unsentimental, Fields unpacks the city's devastating lineage of Indigenous genocide, environmental collapse, and capitalist hubris. We Hold Our Breath is an expansive portrait of a city that shouldn't exist and the people who call it home.

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Author: Fields, Micah
  • ISBN: 9781324003793
  • Condition: Used
  • Number Of Pages: 192
  • Publication Year: 2023
Language: English

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