Amazing, creepy and haunting coincidence: I was reading Dave Eggers post-Katrina book Zeitoun, then got in mail and started reading upcoming book Last Train from Hiroshima -- and then the Haiti quake hit. Eerie similarities (and differences) in the immediate post-disaster aftermath. More later.
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Thursday, January 14, 2010
From Haiti to Hiroshima
Amazing, creepy and haunting coincidence: I was reading Dave Eggers post-Katrina book Zeitoun, then got in mail and started reading upcoming book Last Train from Hiroshima -- and then the Haiti quake hit. Eerie similarities (and differences) in the immediate post-disaster aftermath. More later.
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