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Dispatches from the Edge: A Memoir of War, Disasters, and Survival
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Judy
Jul 10, 2012 rated it liked it
Devastation can be physical as in the tsunami in Sri Lanka, famine in Africa, and Hurricane Katrina or emotional when the unexpected delivers a sucker punch from which you think you can not recover. In this memoir, Anderson Cooper reveals the emotional voids created in his life by the death of his father when he was ten years old and the suicide of his elder brother when he was in college. He also details how those tragedies caused him to lose any sense of safety and to try to avoid and dull his ...more
Stephanie Sundquist
Jun 08, 2010 rated it really liked it
Beautifully written. I loved how he intertwined the emotions he experienced as a journalist with his family history. Very well done. I love Anderson Cooper!
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