A paradise Made in Hell
by Rebecca Solnit
A Paradise Built in Hell is an eye-opening account of how much hope and solidarity emerges in the face of sudden disaster
Disaster shows us fine truths about ourselves, truths we should use to remake our lives in ordinary times. “Disaster may offer us a glimpse,” Solnit writes, “but the challenge is to make something of it.
What disaster reveals, she argues, is the human longing for purpose and meaning — needs unfulfilled by a life devoted to getting and spending.
The core of the book is the argument that disaster shows us fine truths about ourselves, truths we should use to remake our lives in ordinary times. “Disaster may offer us a glimpse,” Solnit writes, “but the challenge is to make something of it.
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