Three years after Hurricane Katrina%2c the unhealed wounds of New Orleans%27s Lower 9th Ward continue to fester. In this powerful%2c funny and deeply moving mother-daughter story%2c fourteen-year-old runaway Kali embarks on a journey to pick through the wreckage of what used to be her life. Rhyming%2c stealing and scamming her way through the still-destroyed neighborhood%2c engaging the vivid%2c lively denizens who remain%2c she grapples with the real cost of what she has lost as she is forced to confront the even higher cDesignHTMLWords: 83 Characters: 498