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Paradise: One Town's Struggle to Survive an American Wildfire by Johnson, Lizzie

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Publisher
Crown Publishing Group, T.H.E.
ISBN-10
0593136381
ISBN-13
9780593136386
eBay Product ID (ePID)
5050081027

Product Key Features

Book Title
Paradise : One Town's Struggle to Survive an American Wildfire
Number of Pages
432 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2021
Topic
Ecosystems & Habitats / Forests & Rainforests, Global Warming & Climate Change, Disasters & Disaster Relief
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Yes
Genre
Nature, Social Science, Science
Author
Lizzie Johnson
Format
Hardcover

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Item Height
1.4 in
Item Weight
23.1 Oz
Item Length
9.5 in
Item Width
6.3 in

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2021-012297
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"In this reportorial tour de force, Lizzie Johnson captures the orange-black hell of the Paradise wildfire in wrenching, skin-singing detail. You can smell the smoke, feel the super-heated air. After reading this book I wanted to clear all brush and trees away from my home--and I live in Manhattan." --Erik Larson, author of The Splendid and the Vile, "In this reportorial tour de force, Lizzie Johnson captures the orange-black hell of the Paradise wildfire in wrenching, skin-singeing detail. You can smell the smoke, feel the superheated air. After reading this book I wanted to clear all brush and trees away from my home--and I live in Manhattan." --Erik Larson, author of The Splendid and the Vile and The Devil in the White City " Paradise is a phenomenal piece of reporting, filled with love and loss, valor and terror. Lizzie Johnson has written the definitive account of an American tragedy." --Elizabeth Kolbert, author of The Sixth Extinction "Part Rachel Carson, part The Perfect Storm, Lizzie Johnson's Paradise is vital and magnificently crafted--and a book every person who cares about the planet and its citizens should read." --Elizabeth Weil, co-author of The Girl Who Smiled Beads "This account of the deadliest wildfire in California history is a triumph of reportage and storytelling. Out of the ash, Lizzie Johnson has written a memorial to its victims, a tribute to its heroes and survivors and a reckoning of its kindling and match. Among the culpable, we find ourselves." --Mark Arax, author of The Dreamt Land, " Paradise is a phenomenal piece of reporting, filled with love and loss, valor and terror. Lizzie Johnson has written the definitive account of an American tragedy." --Elizabeth Kolbert, author of The Sixth Extinction " Paradise is a propulsive, compassionate tale of lives forever altered and the lessons we must learn about our rapidly changing planet. In our new age of expanding fire disasters, Lizzie Johnson offers a detailed and clear-eyed explanation of where to lay the blame--starting with generations of neglect of nature, and ending with the utility company that, in the words of one victim, ''killed a town.''" --Robert Kolker, author of Hidden Valley Road "In Paradise, Lizzie Johnson masterfully weaves together stories of improbable survival and immeasurable loss to create a compelling portrait of a community brought to its knees by a ferocious fire . . . This is a book about the strength of the human spirit, and also an urgent and necessary call for action." --Fernanda Santos, author of The Fire Line "In a remarkable feat of empathetic reporting, Paradise takes us inside the lives of people facing a rapidly unfolding horror. Lizzie Johnson has a masterful command of this rich and tragic story . . . Equal parts thriller, investigation, and deeply rendered portrait of an American town, Paradise will leave you breathless." --Evan Ratliff, author of The Mastermind "In the tradition of disaster-reporting classics like 102 Minutes and Five Days at Memorial, Paradise delivers everything you expect from the best narrative nonfiction: on-the-ground reporting, incisive writing, and thoughtful analysis. . . . A masterful achievement." --Nate Blakeslee, author of American Wolf "With masterful reporting that drops us right into the flames, Lizzie Johnson shows how firefighters and neighbors risked everything to save each other--and pulls back to reveal the political failures and corporate greed that lit the blaze. She is a major new talent,and this book turned me upside down." --Jason Fagone, author of The Woman Who Smashed Codes " Paradise is an extraordinary book. The enormity of nature, the humanity and dignity of individual people confronting it--Lizzie Johnson has woven them all together brilliantly." --Jon Mooallem, author This Is Chance! "Part Rachel Carson, part The Perfect Storm, Lizzie Johnson''s Paradise is vital and magnificently crafted--and a book every person who cares about the planet and its citizens should read." --Elizabeth Weil, co-author of The Girl Who Smiled Beads "Out of the ash, Lizzie Johnson has written a memorial to its victims, a tribute to its heroes and survivors and a reckoning of its kindling and match. Among the culpable, we find ourselves." --Mark Arax, author of The Dreamt Land "This book kept me up reading late into the night and then buried itself so deep in my head that I couldn''t fall asleep. Lizzie Johnson has written that rare page-turner built on empathy and rigorous reporting. Paradise is both a definitive account of California''s historic wildfire and a crucial warning of the disasters to come."-- Eli Saslow, author of Rising Out of Hatred "As the climate warms, our world burns. In Lizzie Johnson''s Paradise , you feel the heat. Reading it makes your clothes smell like smoke and your heart melt. This is great storytelling, full of human drama, suffering, and redemption." --Jeff Goodell, author of The Water Will Come "[Johnson] balances the horror with compassion. . . . Crucial, comprehensive, and moving." --Publishers Weekly, "In this reportorial tour de force, Lizzie Johnson captures the orange-black hell of the Paradise wildfire in wrenching, skin-singeing detail. You can smell the smoke, feel the superheated air. After reading this book I wanted to clear all brush and trees away from my home--and I live in Manhattan." --Erik Larson, author of The Splendid and the Vile and The Devil in the White City " Paradise is a propulsive, compassionate tale of lives forever changed and the lessons we must learn about our rapidly changing planet. In our new age of expanding fire disasters, Lizzie Johnson offers a detailed and clear-eyed explanation of where to lay the blame--starting with generations of neglect of nature, and ending with the utility company that, in the words of one victim, 'killed a town.'" --Robert Kolker, author of Hidden Valley Road "In Paradise, Lizzie Johnson masterfully weaves together stories of improbable survival and immeasurable loss to create a compelling portrait of a community brought to its knees by a ferocious fire . . . This is a book about the strength of the human spirit, and also an urgent and necessary call for action." --Fernanda Santos, author of The Fire Line "In a remarkable feat of empathetic reporting, Paradise takes us inside the lives of people facing a rapidly unfolding horror. Lizzie Johnson has a masterful command of this rich and tragic story . . . Equal parts thriller, investigation, and deeply rendered portrait of an American town, Paradise will leave you breathless." --Evan Ratliff, author of The Mastermind "With masterful reporting that drops us right into the flames, Lizzie Johnson shows how firefighters and neighbors risked everything to save each other--and pulls back to reveal the political failures and corporate greed that lit the blaze. She is a major new talent,and this book turned me upside down." --Jason Fagone, author of The Woman Who Smashed Codes " Paradise is an extraordinary book. The enormity of nature, the humanity and dignity of individual people confronting it--Lizzie Johnson has woven them all together brilliantly." --Jon Mooallem, author This Is Chance! " Paradise is a phenomenal piece of reporting, filled with love and loss, valor and terror. Lizzie Johnson has written the definitive account of an American tragedy." --Elizabeth Kolbert, author of The Sixth Extinction "Part Rachel Carson, part The Perfect Storm, Lizzie Johnson's Paradise is vital and magnificently crafted--and a book every person who cares about the planet and its citizens should read." --Elizabeth Weil, co-author of The Girl Who Smiled Beads "Out of the ash, Lizzie Johnson has written a memorial to its victims, a tribute to its heroes and survivors and a reckoning of its kindling and match. Among the culpable, we find ourselves." --Mark Arax, author of The Dreamt Land, A vivid ticktock account of the disaster, told through the stories of those who experienced it." --The New York Times "In this reportorial tour de force, Lizzie Johnson captures the orange-black hell of the Paradise wildfire in wrenching, skin-singeing detail. You can smell the smoke, feel the super-heated air. After reading this book I wanted to clear all brush and trees away from my home--and I live in Manhattan." --Erik Larson, author of The Splendid and the Vile "A masterful feat of reporting and climate-era storytelling. [Johnson] has taken the story of a rough-hewn town of retirees and Trumpers, population 27,000 (pre-fire), and turned it into a parable of suffering and loss, of love and heroism." --Rolling Stone " Paradise delves so deep into the experiences of every character that we see the fire through their eyes. . . . That's the true feat of Johnson's meticulous account: she humanizes a tragedy that is otherwise too big to fathom. . . . More than just a portrait of destruction, this book is a small act of restoration." -- Outside "Immediate and emotionally devastating . . . Johnson works to balance the imperative of narrative tension with respect for the unimaginable tragedy, and the resulting work is worth the emotional toll of reading it." --Los Angeles Times "Writers seek intimacy to get readers to care about their subjects when disaster strikes. That tactic works here, yet it does more. Johnson's kaleidoscope of biographical snapshots creates a 21st-century version of Sherwood Anderson's 1919 novel, Winesburg, Ohio ." -- The Washington Post "Riveting . . . Paradise does what good journalism is supposed to do: It bears witness, in sharp, moving detail, to what happened." -- Buzzfeed News "Johnson does for California's deadliest wildfire what Sheri Fink did for Hurricane Katrina in Five Days at Memorial . . . . The book is unmatched for the depth, breadth, and quality of its reporting on a major 21st-century wildfire, and it's likely to become the definitive account of the catastrophe in Paradise." --Kirkus Reviews (starred review) "Gripping, shocking, and intimate . . . The definitive story of an American tragedy." --Library Journal (starred review) "A viscerally harrowing, almost minute-by-minute narrative . . . [Johnson] humanizes the book with detailed, sensitively told stories of many of the townspeople." --Booklist (starred review) " Paradise is a phenomenal piece of reporting, filled with love and loss, valor and terror. Lizzie Johnson has written the definitive account of an American tragedy." --Elizabeth Kolbert, author of The Sixth Extinction " Paradise is a propulsive, compassionate tale of lives forever altered and the lessons we must learn about our rapidly changing planet." --Robert Kolker, author of Hidden Valley Road "In the tradition of disaster-reporting classics like 102 Minutes and Five Days at Memorial, Paradise delivers everything you expect from the best narrative nonfiction: on-the-ground reporting, incisive writing, and thoughtful analysis. . . . A masterful achievement." --Nate Blakeslee, author of American Wolf, " Paradise is a phenomenal piece of reporting, filled with love and loss, valor and terror. Lizzie Johnson has written the definitive account of an American tragedy." --Elizabeth Kolbert, author of The Sixth Extinction " Paradise is a propulsive, compassionate tale of lives forever altered and the lessons we must learn about our rapidly changing planet. In our new age of expanding fire disasters, Lizzie Johnson offers a detailed and clear-eyed explanation of where to lay the blame--starting with generations of neglect of nature, and ending with the utility company that, in the words of one victim, ''killed a town.''" --Robert Kolker, author of Hidden Valley Road "In Paradise, Lizzie Johnson masterfully weaves together stories of improbable survival and immeasurable loss to create a compelling portrait of a community brought to its knees by a ferocious fire . . . This is a book about the strength of the human spirit, and also an urgent and necessary call for action." --Fernanda Santos, author of The Fire Line "In a remarkable feat of empathetic reporting, Paradise takes us inside the lives of people facing a rapidly unfolding horror. Lizzie Johnson has a masterful command of this rich and tragic story . . . Equal parts thriller, investigation, and deeply rendered portrait of an American town, Paradise will leave you breathless." --Evan Ratliff, author of The Mastermind "In the tradition of disaster-reporting classics like 102 Minutes and Five Days at Memorial, Paradise delivers everything you expect from the best narrative nonfiction: on-the-ground reporting, incisive writing, and thoughtful analysis. . . . A masterful achievement." --Nate Blakeslee, author of American Wolf "With masterful reporting that drops us right into the flames, Lizzie Johnson shows how firefighters and neighbors risked everything to save each other--and pulls back to reveal the political failures and corporate greed that lit the blaze. She is a major new talent,and this book turned me upside down." --Jason Fagone, author of The Woman Who Smashed Codes " Paradise is an extraordinary book. The enormity of nature, the humanity and dignity of individual people confronting it--Lizzie Johnson has woven them all together brilliantly." --Jon Mooallem, author This Is Chance! "Part Rachel Carson, part The Perfect Storm, Lizzie Johnson''s Paradise is vital and magnificently crafted--and a book every person who cares about the planet and its citizens should read." --Elizabeth Weil, co-author of The Girl Who Smiled Beads "Out of the ash, Lizzie Johnson has written a memorial to its victims, a tribute to its heroes and survivors and a reckoning of its kindling and match. Among the culpable, we find ourselves." --Mark Arax, author of The Dreamt Land "This book kept me up reading late into the night and then buried itself so deep in my head that I couldn''t fall asleep. Lizzie Johnson has written that rare page-turner built on empathy and rigorous reporting. Paradise is both a definitive account of California''s historic wildfire and a crucial warning of the disasters to come."-- Eli Saslow, author of Rising Out of Hatred "As the climate warms, our world burns. In Lizzie Johnson''s Paradise , you feel the heat. Reading it makes your clothes smell like smoke and your heart melt. This is great storytelling, full of human drama, suffering, and redemption." --Jeff Goodell, author of The Water Will Come "Compulsively readable . . . Writing with an objective clarity and dishing like an insider-hipster, Etter offers a powerful indictment of both sides of the same corrupt coin, delivering an eye-opening account of an industry shamelessly gaslighting customers, employees, investors, and government regulators in pursuit of profits over principles." -- Booklist , starred review "[Johnson] balances the horror with compassion. . . . Crucial, comprehensive, and moving." --Publishers Weekly, "In this reportorial tour de force, Lizzie Johnson captures the orange-black hell of the Paradise wildfire in wrenching, skin-singeing detail. You can smell the smoke, feel the superheated air. After reading this book I wanted to clear all brush and trees away from my home--and I live in Manhattan." --Erik Larson, author of The Splendid and the Vile and The Devil in the White City " Paradise is a phenomenal piece of reporting, filled with love and loss, valor and terror. Lizzie Johnson has written the definitive account of an American tragedy." --Elizabeth Kolbert, author of The Sixth Extinction " Paradise is a propulsive, compassionate tale of lives forever changed and the lessons we must learn about our rapidly changing planet. In our new age of expanding fire disasters, Lizzie Johnson offers a detailed and clear-eyed explanation of where to lay the blame--starting with generations of neglect of nature, and ending with the utility company that, in the words of one victim, 'killed a town.'" --Robert Kolker, author of Hidden Valley Road "In Paradise, Lizzie Johnson masterfully weaves together stories of improbable survival and immeasurable loss to create a compelling portrait of a community brought to its knees by a ferocious fire . . . This is a book about the strength of the human spirit, and also an urgent and necessary call for action." --Fernanda Santos, author of The Fire Line "In a remarkable feat of empathetic reporting, Paradise takes us inside the lives of people facing a rapidly unfolding horror. Lizzie Johnson has a masterful command of this rich and tragic story . . . Equal parts thriller, investigation, and deeply rendered portrait of an American town, Paradise will leave you breathless." --Evan Ratliff, author of The Mastermind "In the tradition of disaster-reporting classics like 102 Minutes and Five Days at Memorial, Paradise delivers everything you expect from the best narrative nonfiction: on-the-ground reporting, incisive writing, and thoughtful analysis. . . . A masterful achievement." --Nate Blakeslee, author of American Wolf "With masterful reporting that drops us right into the flames, Lizzie Johnson shows how firefighters and neighbors risked everything to save each other--and pulls back to reveal the political failures and corporate greed that lit the blaze. She is a major new talent,and this book turned me upside down." --Jason Fagone, author of The Woman Who Smashed Codes " Paradise is an extraordinary book. The enormity of nature, the humanity and dignity of individual people confronting it--Lizzie Johnson has woven them all together brilliantly." --Jon Mooallem, author This Is Chance! "Part Rachel Carson, part The Perfect Storm, Lizzie Johnson's Paradise is vital and magnificently crafted--and a book every person who cares about the planet and its citizens should read." --Elizabeth Weil, co-author of The Girl Who Smiled Beads "Out of the ash, Lizzie Johnson has written a memorial to its victims, a tribute to its heroes and survivors and a reckoning of its kindling and match. Among the culpable, we find ourselves." --Mark Arax, author of The Dreamt Land, "In this reportorial tour de force, Lizzie Johnson captures the orange-black hell of the Paradise wildfire in wrenching, skin-singeing detail. You can smell the smoke, feel the super-heated air. After reading this book I wanted to clear all brush and trees away from my home--and I live in Manhattan." --Erik Larson, author of The Splendid and the Vile "A masterful feat of reporting and climate-era storytelling. [Johnson] has taken the story of a rough-hewn town of retirees and Trumpers, population 27,000 (pre-fire), and turned it into a parable of suffering and loss, of love and heroism. . . . The power of Paradise comes from Johnson's ability to slow down and sift through the ashes of the human heart to find a deeper resonance." --Rolling Stone " Paradise delves so deep into the experiences of every character that we see the fire through their eyes. . . . That's the true feat of Johnson's meticulous account: she humanizes a tragedy that is otherwise too big to fathom. . . . More than just a portrait of destruction, this book is a small act of restoration." -- Outside "Immediate and emotionally devastating . . . Johnson works to balance the imperative of narrative tension with respect for the unimaginable tragedy, and the resulting work is worth the emotional toll of reading it." --Los Angeles Times "Writers seek intimacy to get readers to care about their subjects when disaster strikes. That tactic works here, yet it does more. Johnson's kaleidoscope of biographical snapshots creates a 21st-century version of Sherwood Anderson's 1919 novel, Winesburg, Ohio ." -- The Washington Post "Riveting . . . Paradise does what good journalism is supposed to do: It bears witness, in sharp, moving detail, to what happened." -- Buzzfeed News "Johnson does for California's deadliest wildfire what Sheri Fink did for Hurricane Katrina in Five Days at Memorial . . . . The book is unmatched for the depth, breadth, and quality of its reporting on a major 21st-century wildfire, and it's likely to become the definitive account of the catastrophe in Paradise." --Kirkus Reviews (starred review) "Gripping, shocking, and intimate . . . The definitive story of an American tragedy." --Library Journal (starred review) "A viscerally harrowing, almost minute-by-minute narrative . . . [Johnson] humanizes the book with detailed, sensitively told stories of many of the townspeople." --Booklist (starred review) " Paradise is a phenomenal piece of reporting, filled with love and loss, valor and terror. Lizzie Johnson has written the definitive account of an American tragedy." --Elizabeth Kolbert, author of The Sixth Extinction " Paradise is a propulsive, compassionate tale of lives forever altered and the lessons we must learn about our rapidly changing planet." --Robert Kolker, author of Hidden Valley Road "In the tradition of disaster-reporting classics like 102 Minutes and Five Days at Memorial, Paradise delivers everything you expect from the best narrative nonfiction: on-the-ground reporting, incisive writing, and thoughtful analysis. . . . A masterful achievement." --Nate Blakeslee, author of American Wolf
Synopsis
The definitive firsthand account of California's Camp Fire, the nation's deadliest wildfire in a century, Paradise is a riveting examination of what went wrong and how to avert future tragedies as the climate crisis unfolds. "A tour de force story of wildfire and a terrifying look at what lies ahead."-- San Francisco Chronicle (Best Books of the Year) On November 8, 2018, the people of Paradise, California, awoke to a mottled gray sky and gusty winds. Soon the Camp Fire was upon them, gobbling an acre a second. Less than two hours after the fire ignited, the town was engulfed in flames, the residents trapped in their homes and cars. By the next morning, eighty-five people were dead. As a reporter for the San Francisco Chronicle , Lizzie Johnson was there as the town of Paradise burned. She saw the smoldering rubble of a historic covered bridge and the beloved Black Bear Diner and she stayed long afterward, visiting shelters, hotels, and makeshift camps. Drawing on years of on-the-ground reporting and reams of public records, including 911 calls and testimony from a grand jury investigation, Johnson provides a minute-by-minute account of the Camp Fire, following residents and first responders as they fight to save themselves and their town. We see a young mother fleeing with her newborn; a school bus full of children in search of an escape route; and a group of paramedics, patients, and nurses trapped in a cul-de-sac, fending off the fire with rakes and hoses. In Paradise, Johnson documents the unfolding tragedy with empathy and nuance. But she also investigates the root causes, from runaway climate change to a deeply flawed alert system to Pacific Gas and Electric's decades-long neglect of critical infrastructure. A cautionary tale for a new era of megafires, Paradise is the gripping story of a town wiped off the map and the determination of its people to rise again.
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SD421.32.C2J64 2021

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