Jim Defede
Autor(a) de The Day the World Came to Town: 9/11 in Gander, Newfoundland
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Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Data de nascimento
- 1962-08-11
- Sexo
- male
- Nacionalidade
- USA
- Local de nascimento
- Brooklyn, New York, USA
- Ocupação
- journalist
- Organizações
- Miami Herald
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 2
- Membros
- 1,078
- Popularidade
- #23,856
- Avaliação
- 4.1
- Resenhas
- 86
- ISBNs
- 11
This IS a book about what happened that day and the days that followed those events. The book only touches briefly on 9/11, but mainly focuses on the planes diverted to and landing in Gander, Newfoundland. The stories of these people are complex, interesting and diverse. We have a family who adopted a little girl and were trying to get back home, a Hugo Boss executive who would NEVER sleep on the floor but did during his time in Gander, parents of a NYC firefighter awaiting word as to whether or not he is alive, and several animals.
It tells about how the stranded flights were not allowed to disembark right away and how some of the flight attendants gave carte blanche to the beverage carts on the planes while waiting days before they could leave the planes.
Most importantly, it tells the stories of all the townspeople of Gander, Newfoundland and how they embraced these newly-stranded and very scared people (dubbed the "plane people") by opening up their homes and their hearts to them, offering them the use of their shower, kitchen and homes. They donated towels and toiletries and offered to bring them to a store to buy new clothes because the luggage was still on the planes.
Definitely a MUST read.… (mais)