LIVES MYSTERY, MAGIC, DEATH LIFE NEW ORLEANS. TOPIC; Dan Baum works ensure readers understand life New Orleans life America. The people New Orleans things differently Americans.

When you first lay eyes on Dan Baum's Nine Lives, you don't really know what to make of the book. That is, you are a little confused of whether or not it is a fiction book. It does have that aura of a fiction book, a sort of mystery entangling it. But once you start reading the ?About the book? introduction, you find that it is not actually, that is, a fiction book. It is in fact a cursive lining up of people testifying their lives and that it would indeed appear unimaginable for them to carry on living some place else other than New Orleans. And that, because, as the author tells us, ?that New Orleans is like no place else in America...
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