- Resilience (Personality trait), Emergency management, Mental health, Disaster victims
It lurks in the corner of our imagination, almost beyond our ability to see it: the possibility that a tear in the fabric of life could open up without warning, upending a house, a skyscraper, or a civilization.
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Earnest, spare, contemporary and grave.
- earnestironic
- sparerichly built
- contemporarynostalgic
- gravecomic
- intimateepic
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About the book
- Author
- Amanda Ripley
- First published
- 2008
- Pages
- 266
- Publisher
- Crown, Crown Publishers, Crown Publishing Group
- Editions
- 5
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780307352897
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