Worst of all, Mamma has decided they won’t be participating in the Mardi Gras festivities this year but Lala is determined to celebrate the holiday in her own way. Lala’s work-weary father hasn’t played his horn since the storm, and her Mamma-once the best dancer in New Orleans-is perpetually cross and forbids music-making. Blue spluttered, then died” and “the levees cried.” Forced to leave their home, Lala’s family now lives in her aunt’s shotgun house, and everything has changed. Lala, the young African American narrator, begins the story with a haunting memory of the hurricane’s wrath: “Wind threw Water into Sky, / snatched the Blue out. Price drums up a toe-tapping, finger-snapping tale of resilience in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.
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