This was a gripping book. It brought back very vivid memories of that summer, and accurately captured the feeling that pervaded the atmosphere - the desperation, the despair, the sickening nausea at the pit of my stomach. Even though I didn't live there, I drove down to the coast myself, to witness ...
I love books like this in which the author raises universal questions about how things work and then supplies the answers in short humorous essays. Fun casual reading, easy to pick up and put down again.