Five days at memorial is sheri finks elaborately researched chronicle of life death and the choices in between at a new orleans hospital immediately following hurricane katrina whats important it slowly emerges is that despite finks painstaking re creation based on five hundred interviews and mountains of documents we werent there. Five days at memorial is a powerful balanced and clearly written if slightly dry account of the lives lost or irrevocably altered in a new orleans hospital after hurricane katrina hit sheri fink a physician turned journalist has obviously done lots of research the book grew out of a series of articles she wrote for the new york times magazine and propublica that earned her a pulitzer prize. Sheri fink is the author of the new york times bestselling book five days at memorial life and death in a storm ravaged hospital crown 2013 about choices made in the aftermath of hurricane katrina. Five days at memorial life and death in a storm ravaged hospital is a 2013 non fiction book by the american journalist sheri fink the book details the aftermath of hurricane katrina at memorial medical center in new orleans in august 2005 and is an expansion of a pulitzer prize winning article written by fink and published in the new york times magazine in 2009