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product_id: 21256268
title: "The House on First Street: My New Orleans Story"
brand: "julia reed"
price: "KSh6173"
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reviews_count: 7
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# The House on First Street: My New Orleans Story

**Brand:** julia reed
**Price:** KSh6173
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- **What is this?** The House on First Street: My New Orleans Story by julia reed
- **How much does it cost?** KSh6173 with free shipping
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The House on First Street: My New Orleans Story

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## Customer Reviews

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    Breezy, warts-and-all peek inside Julia Reed's New Orleans life
  

*by A***K on Reviewed in the United States on June 6, 2009*

I enjoyed this 'slice of my life' book from Vogue and Newsweek writer Julia Reed.  She's crafted a wonderful existence for herself in New Orleans and I, for one, enjoyed the breezy, warts-and-all peek inside.  That Katrina occurs smack in the middle of the author's narrative gives her tales here extra meaning.  We know what's about to happen as she first settles into her 'House on First Street.'Reed knows that ultimately she suffered lightly from Katrina compared to others.  While writing, she and her close friends are carefully aware of communicating anything that sounds like what she deftly calls a 'Marie Antoinette moment.'  I believe she succeeds on that front.  Moreover, in the long run New Orleans needs and depends on free-spending denizens like Ms. Reed.  The city's proprietors will no doubt grant and welcome her reveling in small victories like restaurant re-openings, the arrival of first-class cooks back in town, the first gala fund-raiser, and the resumption of table-taking at old stomping grounds.  It's consumption of this nature that is vital to the city's recovery.  Julia Reed is at the center of this world.Ms. Reed collects friends by the bushel full.  Reading this book, it's not hard to see why:  with many friends in need, she proves here to be a friend indeed.

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    Makes me miss New Orleans
  

*by J***E on Reviewed in the United States on July 4, 2008*

I was born uptown at Touro Infirmary in 1936, raised in Carrollton, where I delivered the Times-Picayune newspaper at 4 in the morning. Educated at New Orleans Academy and De la Salle high school, Baton Rouge and LSU then back to LSU Med School for the finishing touch. Grandparents, parents, aunts, uncles, cousins by the dozens. Suffered at a distance with all my relatives and friends after Katrina. Haven't lived there for years but love it and return when I can, if for no other reason than to prove to myself that there can be that many really good restaurants in one place! So, I read everything I can that is truly about my home.Julia's little book is a treasure and captures the spirit and mood of the this truly remarkable place as well as anything I have ever read. True, she eats out more in one week than most native New Orleanians do in a year, but, no matter she got it right in all the essentials. Julia, while reading I could I could feel the heat and humidity and smell the French Quarter. Honey child, you done good even if you are from Mississippi.If you love the old city get this book and enjoy. Next time I'm home I'll drive past 1st and Chestnut and honk.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    A wonderful read
  

*by S***R on Reviewed in the United States on September 17, 2020*

This book is a wonderful read, beautifully written in a style that is easy to follow and engage with.  Author is very entertaining in her storytelling and sheds light on many facets of life in New Orleans.  I am recommending this book to my friends and have since ordered all her other books listed on Amazon, she has a wonderful, entertaining style of writing.

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