The Last House on Greensburg Street

Margaret Owens spent forty-three years in the same clapboard house on Greensburg Street in New Orleans. She raised four children there, buried her husband from the front porch, and watched the neighborhood shift around her like sand. Then Katrina came. The water rose five feet in her living room. She lost the photo albums, the kitchen table her mother had given her, the pencil marks on the doorframe where she'd measured her children's growth.…