Strangers Drowning

Strangers Drowning: Impossible Idealism, Drastic Choices, and the Urge to Help
AuthorLarissa MacFarquhar
LanguageEnglish
PublisherPenguin Books
Publication date
September 29, 2015
Publication placeUnited States
Media type
  • Print
  • e-book
  • audiobook
Pages336
ISBN978-1-5942-0433-3

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]

  1. ^ Garner, Dwight (September 24, 2015). "Review: 'Strangers Drowning' Examines Extreme Do-Gooders". The New York Times. Retrieved September 1, 2024.