How far would you go for others, and how far should you go? Would you donate your kidney? Adopt twenty kids? Live in a leprosy colony in the wilderness? Told with compassion and beauty, this is the story of the people who do- their tough courage and extraordinary, unsettling goodness.
Larissa MacFarquhar has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 1998. Her subjects have included John Ashbery, Barack Obama and Noam Chomsky, among many others. Before joining the magazine, she was a senior editor at Lingua Franca and an advisory editor at The Paris Review. She lives in New York.
Daringly conceived, brilliantly executed - may change not just how
you see the world, but how you live in it
*Katherine Boo, author of Behind the Beautiful Forevers*
Chilling and utterly absorbing... Combining critical analysis with
compassion, the book's treatment is reminiscent of Oliver Sacks,
who explored the more extraordinary aspects of ordinary lives
*Daily Telegraph*
Strangers Drowning is a book written in a deceptively simple and
clear voice about people, about how morality lodges itself in a
person not as an abstract idea, or even a value, but as a direction
for life... Impressive
*Financial Times*
A brilliant and rigorous thinker... As a book on altruism, this is
also a book that invites us to think about selfishness - she's good
on Adam Smith and Darwin, among many others
*Evening Standard*
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