A review by paintchips1003
A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster by Rebecca Solnit

5.0

Pure coincidence I was reading this as we watched the coronavirus spread from China to Italy and Spain and then to the U.S. Everything she wrote about came true. The government botched and bumbled and delayed. While the people made their own communities, created their own pathways to deliver aid, helped strangers. This book is full of hope, not that the gov't. will do better next time. It will always fail us. But we will not and do not fail each other.