If you couldn't afford to leave, and you couldn't afford to fix your life, then what you had to do was watch the neighborhood grow further away from you." If you broke the bank rebuilding, then you couldn't stay.
fter the storm, they pushed the rest of us out, too: if you couldn't afford to rebuild, then you had to go. As Bryan Washington writes in his stunning debut short story collection, Lot, "Houston is molting. Sprawling and diverse, the Bayou City shows us how a variety of cultures can coexist and band together after hardships, such as the hurricanes that have battered the city over the past several years.īut cities change over time, and Houston is no exception. New York and Los Angeles tend to get all the ink, but you could make an argument that Houston is the most uniquely American big city there is.
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