Katy Budget Books

Leigh Jones and Rhiannon Meyers sign Infinite Monster: Courage, Hope, and Resurrection in the Face of One of America's Largest Hurricanes. Endorsed by Douglas Brinkley (author of The Great Deluge), and Paul Burka (the Executive Editor of Texas Monthly), Infinite Monster is compiled from private interviews of Galvestonians who survived Hurricane Ike.  Their stories expose the destitution of loss, the politics of recovery and the revelry of rebirth. Award-winning Galveston County Daily News (www.galvnews.com) reporters Leigh Jones and Rhiannon Meyers spent a year writing about the storm's devastating aftermath and were part of the Galveston County Daily News team that won the 2009 Star Breaking News award from the Texas Associated Press for their hurricane coverage.  In the book, Jones & Meyers depict survivors returning to the island through toxic debris and a seemingly endless bureaucracy.  They liken Ike to “a phantom reincarnation of its 1900 ancestor”. No event in Galveston’s modern history has forced the city to redefine its identity and future direction like Ike has.  The authors pose some hard questions, most of which have yet to be answered, but one thing is certain — Hurricane Ike was like the Infinite Monster (www.infinitemonster.com) that would forever cloud the Gulf Coast's future.