![]() Slowly, people switched on their transistor radios and heard a familiar woman’s voice explaining what had just happened and what to do next. The city was in disarray and sealed off from the outside world. And once the shaking stopped, night fell and Anchorage went dark. ![]() Streets cracked open and swallowed buildings whole. For four and a half minutes, the ground lurched and rolled. But just before sundown on Good Friday, the community was jolted by the most powerful earthquake in American history, a catastrophic 9.2 on the Richter Scale. In the spring of 1964, Anchorage, Alaska, was a modern-day frontier town yearning to be a metropolis-the largest, proudest city in a state that was still brand-new. “A beautifully wrought and profoundly joyful story of compassion and perseverance.”- BuzzFeed (Best Books of the Year) ![]() “A powerful, heart-wrenching book, as much art as it is journalism.”- The Wall Street Journal The thrilling, cinematic story of a community shattered by disaster-and the extraordinary woman who helped pull it back together ![]()
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