Parul Sehgal, The New York Times Book Review, Dec. 30 2011 Job has nothing on 15-year-old Esch. She’s poor and pregnant and plain unlucky. Mama’s dead, Daddy’s a drunk and dinner is Top Ramen every night. Sex is the only thing that has ever come easily to her. When the boys used to take her [...]
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Salvage the Bones
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An Interview with Rebecca Solnit
Posted in Interviews, tagged 9/11, A Paradise Built in Hell, Author Interviews, disasters, Hurricane Katrina, Rebecca Solnit, utopia on July 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Paradise Found: PW talks with Rebecca Solnit by Parul Sehgal — Publishers Weekly, 6/29/2009 In A Paradise in Hell, Solnit surveys responses to disasters and discovers that people finding meaning—even exhilaration—in healing and rebuilding their communities. What constitutes a disaster? Does the current economic crisis qualify? It’s a question of scale. Disaster scholars distinguish an emergency—an incident such [...]
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