The Coast, One Year Out
Bay St. Louis, Pass Christian, and the slow vocabulary of return.
A year on, the slabs are still the most honest thing on the coast — the rectangles of concrete where a house used to be, scrubbed clean of everything except the plumbing. You can walk half a mile along Beach Boulevard in Pass Christian and see them the way you would see grave markers, in rows, at intervals that used to mean neighbors.
This is an archival excerpt. The full piece runs to roughly ten thousand words in the August 2006 print edition. — The Editors, 2026.
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