The Big Truck That Went by: How the World Came to Save Haiti and Left Behind a Disaster

by Jonathan M. Katz

Book Overview

PEN Literary Award Finalist

On January 12, 2010, the deadliest earthquake in the history of the Western Hemisphere struck the nation least prepared to handle it. Jonathan M. Katz, the only full-time American news correspondent in Haiti, was inside his house when it buckled along with hundreds of thousands of others. In this visceral, authoritative first-hand account, Katz chronicles the terror of that day, the devastation visited...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1137278978
• ISBN13: 9781137278975
• Release Date: April 2014
• Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.3"