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This Is Chance!: The Shaking of an All-American City, a Voice That Held It Together
Maybe someday
36
/100
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Readers
21/100Critics
50/100Scholars
Author:
Jon Mooallem
Publisher:
Random House
Date:
March 24, 2020
The story of a community shattered by disasterâand the extraordinary woman who helped pull it back together.
What The Reviewers Say
Mooallem does a nice job of showing the domino of damage in cinematic slow motion — the crevasses opening in city streets, the land slinking and sliding, the indiscriminate collapse of homes of both the rich and the poor. And he’s astute in explaining the science.
Mooallem's second book...is an invigorating retelling of three days in March 1964.
Mooallem makes brilliant use of two fortunate circumstances for telling this story.
This is a story about how communities pulled together in the face of extreme adversity; while several people described throughout were also pivotal to the disaster relief and recovery process, Mooallem uses Genie Chance as the anchor and heart of the story.
