Author | Larissa MacFarquhar |
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Language | English |
Publisher | Penguin Books |
Publication date | September 29, 2015 |
Publication place | United States |
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Pages | 336 |
ISBN | 978-1-5942-0433-3 |
Strangers Drowning: Impossible Idealism, Drastic Choices, and the Urge to Help is a 2015 non-fiction book about extreme altruists, authored by The New Yorker writer Larissa MacFarquhar. It's structured as a series of profiles on people she refers to as "do-gooders" including Dorothy Granada, Baba Amte and his family, and a couple who adopted 20 children.[1]