Strangers Drowning: Grappling with Impossible Idealism, Drastic Choices, and the Overpowering Urge to Help

by Larissa MacFarquhar

Book Overview

What does it mean to devote yourself wholly to helping others? In Strangers Drowning , Larissa MacFarquhar seeks out people living lives of extreme ethical commitment and tells their deeply intimate stories; their stubborn integrity and their compromises; their bravery and their recklessness; their joys and defeats and wrenching dilemmas. A couple adopts two children in distress. But then they think: If they can change two lives, why not four? Or...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1594204330
• ISBN13: 9781594204333
• Release Date: September 2015
• Publisher: Penguin Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.33 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.1" x 9.3"