This Is Chance!: The Shaking of an All-American City, a Voice That Held It Together

by Jon Mooallem

We don’t walk around thinking about that instability, but we know it’s always there: at random, and without warning, a kind of terrible magic can switch on and scramble our lives.

Bram had always considered broadcasting more of a public service than a business. It was the cornerstone of any decent democracy,

Like this book, it has three acts, set on three different days.