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Author:
Lizzie Johnson
Publisher:
Crown
Date:
August 17, 2021
A firsthand account of California's Camp Fire, the nation's deadliest wildfire in a century. Paradise is an examination of what went wrong and how to avert future tragedies as the climate crisis unfolds.
What The Reviewers Say
[An] epic, tragic, terrifying story.
[Johnson] deliver[s] a viscerally harrowing, almost minute-by-minute narrative of the events leading to that conflagration, the dawning realization that a massively fatal wildfire was descending on the region.
A terrifyingly intimate account of the Camp Fire.
A reporter for the San Francisco Chronicle gives a masterly account of the 2018 Camp Fire.
