Forty-fifth challenge finish of the year.
This one has been on my Kindle since January of 2024, so not the oldest, but still I am so excited to have another one with the "Read" banner across the corner of its cover's thumbnail on my Kindle's home screen! In this case the storm was the non-human antagonist. The subject was the 1900 hurricane that had a death toll of more than six-thousand (some say eight- to twelve-thousand) people.
Reading this so close upon the heels of the flash flooding that occurred so near us was a bit difficult. The descriptions of the storm's suddenness, the children and families lost, the loved ones searching and waiting for news. So very sad.
I feel like a traitor just giving it three and a half stars, because I really admire the author's work in literary non-fiction. But this one was very history, technical, and climate science heavy and bogged me down a bit in the first half, and I found myself playing on my phone rather than reading. But the second half was really gripping. The very well researched descriptions of the violence and devastation the storm assaulted the island with had me reading with one hand covering my mouth.
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