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Acclaimed author, historian, and activist Rebecca Solnit was inspired to write this nonfiction book after living through the Loma Prieta earthquake in California and feeling surprised at the positive emotions she and others felt during and after the event. By examining disasters from the San Francisco earthquake of 1906 to Hurricane Katrina, Solnit hopes to illuminate the paradise of goodwill and cooperation for which people already have the capacity, especially glimpsed in the hellish circumstances of disaster. 

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