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. The thrilling, cinematic story of a community shattered by disaster-and the extraordinary woman who helped pull it back together "An intimate, moving story about our capacity to care for one another when things fall apart-and, just maybe, on all the ordinary days, too."-Elizabeth Gilbert 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.
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