10th Anniversdary Edition. A family struggles to survive Hurricane Katrina.

"Lita Hooper’s masterful meditation on family, Running Away to Home, shows us that man-made disasters can be just as ruinous as natural ones, and that hurricanes may take away one’s home with sudden, sweeping, devastating force, but they will never take away one’s humanity—for that is where the heart is." 
 —Tony Medina, author of The President Looks Like Me & Other Poems