A review by dkrane
Strangers Drowning: Grappling with Impossible Idealism, Drastic Choices, and the Overpowering Urge to Help by Larissa MacFarquhar

4.0

Provocative book that’s asking just the kinds of questions I wanted to be thinking about right now: “what are our bigger moral obligations in this connected world?” “How much of my life can be for me?” etc. It doesn’t offer easy answers, and its history of the undermining of do-gooders felt less cohesive to me than its portrayals of its subjects, but highly recommended nonetheless.