Why New Orleans Matters

In my book club we chose to read the book Why New Orleans Matters by Tom Piazza.  At our first meeting we dicussed why we all chose the book and what interested us about it.  I chose this book because first off, the cover looked really cool and it caught my eye.  Second, after I read the summary of what it was about it seemed really interesting and something I would like reading.  Why New Orleans Matters is about the city after the devastation of Hurricane Katrina.  It tells us about how it grew as a city again and about the culture and traditions that occur there.

Interview choice and questions

I am thinking about picking my mom to do the profile on. I know we are not suppose to pick someone that close to us but I feel like she would be a very interesting person to do an interview with.  My mom has had colon cancer twice and needed to have 2 surgeries to get out all of the cancer.  She now has to go through chemo every other week and does not know when she can end it.  This would be a very cool and interesting interview because we would get to hear how she feels about the whole thing and how scary it was to find out she had it when the typical age to get it is 50 years old.

Possible interview questions would be:
1) Has anyone else in your family had it?
2) What made you go to the hospital the day you found out you had it?
3) What is it like to have to sit in the Oncologist office every other week so they can hook you up to the chemo?
4) What kind of surgery did you need to get?
5) What type of things went through your head when you found out it came back?

Profile essay ideas

Three possible people that I might interview are my auntie Cathy who has been to many different places around the world , my friend Juan De Leon, or my friend's grandfather who came over to the U.S from Ireland.