By Gary Krist
✩✩✩✩ stars
New Orleans has historically been a city apart. Owned by the French, then the Spanish, and then sold to the United States in the Louisiana Purchase, it has embraced and absorbed its varied culture. In the late nineteenth, early twentieth century, attempts to reform the city and its vices resulted in a red-light district called Storyland where prostitution, alcohol and organized crime became a profitable undertaking. As someone who has never even traveled to New Orleans, I found this fascinating. The people and culture that comprised the city and its clash with new American morals created an atmosphere like no other city in the fairly new United States. At times the narrative was disjointed and some topics felt unnecessary to the rest of the story, however, I really enjoyed this look into a three decade span of the city's history. I received this book from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.
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