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I've just finished reading Contact by Evelyn Vaughn. I've had this novel on my desk here at work for some time, and today, since I didn't bring my laptop to work thinking we'd be extremely busy, I started to read. The book is set in New Orleans. I loved this book, loved it not only because Evelyn Vaughn is an awesome writer, and I've never read anything of hers I thought was less than stellar. I loved it because of the well drawn characters. The tough, yet real hero, Roy. The young, yet wise heroine Faith. I loved the action. The suspense. But most of all, I loved the descriptions. Although I've never been to New Orleans (a fact which I now lament), I felt as if I knew it. As if I were there. And that makes this book one to treasure for more than the excellent writing and thrilling adventure. This book should be treasured for the history. For the fact that it will bring pre-Katrina New Orleans to life for so many people who maybe remember with fond memories or, like me, have never visited. In talking with fellow writers, several mentioned works in progress set in New Orleans. Now, those manuscripts may be set aside. Some will be set aside long enough to figure out whether or not to work the reality of Katrina into the narrative; some will be set aside permanently. That, my friends, is the creative price of Katrina. And I'm sure it isn't just authors. Musicians, Painters, Actors, and Dancers, anyone really who lives in that space between imagination and reality will be affected. This kind of cost can't be quantified. It won't show up on the nightly news in terms of billions of dollars or lives lost. And while my heart breaks for those who have lost homes, families, possessions, pets, and lives in the storm, it weeps for those who find the creative flow stifled. There are hundreds of other costs to this storm, like the creative cost, that can't be quantified for the news media. Katrina's effects will be felt for a long time. The analytical part of my brain wants to put words, numbers to it. The emotional part still is trying to come to grips. I thought I was doing okay, and then I read Evelyn's book, and realized the ramifications are too numerous to count.  
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