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2015 selection · Nonfiction
Strangers Drowning: Grappling With Impossible Idealism, Drastic Choices, And The Overpowering Urge To Help
Strangers Drowning: Grappling With Impossible Idealism, Drastic Choices, And The Overpowering Urge To Help by Larissa MacFarquhar appears in NPR’s 2015 Books We Love guide. NPR’s editors categorized the recommendation around book club ideas, seriously great writing, nonfiction, placing it within the year’s broader reading conversation.
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