“A landmark book that gives impassioned challenge to the social meaning of disasters” (The New York Times Book Review) from the author of the memoir Recollections of My Nonexistence“The freshest, deepest, most optimistic account of human nature I've come across in years.” —Bill McKibben Chosen as a Best Book of the Year by the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, New Yorker, San Francisco Chronicle, Washington Post, and Chicago Tribune The most startling thing about disasters,