A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster by Rebecca Solnit

A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster

Rebecca Solnit

13 hours first pub 2009 (editions)

nonfiction history psychology sociology informative inspiring reflective slow-paced

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The most startling thing about disasters, according to award-winning author Rebecca Solnit, is not merely that so many people rise to the occasion, but that they do so with joy. That joy reveals an ordinarily unmet yearning for community, purposef...

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informative 82%
inspiring 72%
reflective 70%
hopeful 62%
challenging 55%
emotional 47%
dark 25%
sad 17%
tense 7%
adventurous 5%

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slow 46%
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