Strangers Drowning: Impossible Idealism, Drastic Choices, and the Urge to Help by Larissa MacFarquhar

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

Larissa MacFarquhar

336 pages first pub 2015 (editions)

nonfiction philosophy psychology sociology reflective sad slow-paced
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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 compr...

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3.9
based on 464 reviews

Moods

reflective: 86%

informative: 70%

challenging: 50%

emotional: 43%

hopeful: 40%

inspiring: 40%

sad: 20%

dark: 13%

funny: 3%

tense: 3%


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25% of readers chose slow
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