No Time Like the Present: 10 Books We'll Finally Read in 2016

In this landmark investigation of a landmark event, Fink's medical and journalism backgrounds come together to show what happened at Memorial Medical Center in the five days following the landfall of Hurricane Katrina. Though many of us know how the story ends, the book reads like a suspense novel, introducing a number of memorable characters and the question that we frequently ask ourselves when disaster strikes: "What would I do?"

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