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Facing The Wave: A Journey In The Wake Of The Tsunami (2013)

by Gretel Ehrlich(Favorite Author)

3.74 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

0307907317 (ISBN13: 9780307907318)

languge

English

genre

Memoir & Autobiography

publisher

Pantheon

review 1: The author's descriptions of the devastation and response of those affected by the tsunami are vivid and detailed. I thought reading it might be depressing. Instead, I was moved by the small, daily steps people took to recover and regain their lives. It is a sad and cautionary tale but I loved the way she told it. Never heavy handed, simply reporting the stories as she heard and saw them, letting you draw your own parallels.
review 2: I've been a fan of Gretel Ehrlich for such a long time. Her deep sense of ethics. Her courage, both intellectual (she is unafraid to swerve away from straight narrative, from facts, and so all of her books are a--to me--magical blend of the reportorial, the descriptive, and the lyric) and physical (she spent months researching thi... mores particular book in Japan, where she was exposed to high levels of radiation, continuing earthquakes, a typhoon). Her tremendous and palpable passion for the natural world. Her very Buddhist desire to question and probe and explore. So I loved this book, which taught me more (intellectually and heartfully) about the tsunami and its aftermath than anything else I've read. less

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