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Outlook: 21/11/2011

21/11/2011

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The hurricane that inspired a novel - one American woman's terrifying ordeal.

The US woman who turned her terrifying experience of Hurricane Katrina into a novel.

Extraordinary personal stories from around the world. 

Today, Jesmyn Ward, the American woman who turned her terrifying experience of Hurricane Katrina into an award-winning novel. Salvage the Bones by Jesmyn Ward is published by Bloomsbury.  

Also, we go on the beat with one of Afghanistan's new breed of women police officers. 

And a British journalist describes the madness he experienced when a routine hospital operation went wrong.

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