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02128aam a2200313 i 4500 001 B12157AA136211EB81CB539552ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20201021010010 008 200131t20202019nyu e b 000 0deng d 020 $a 9780399185830 020 $a 0399185836 035 $a (OCoLC)1137742278 040 $a YDX $b eng $e rda $c YDX $d OCLCQ $d JUH $d SILO 100 1 $a Weingarten, Gene, $e author. 245 10 $a One day : $b the extraordinary story of an ordinary 24 hours in America / $c Gene Weingarten. 250 $a Blue Rider Press trade paperback edition. 264 1 $a New York : $b Blue Rider Press, $c 2020. 300 $a 374 pages ; $c 21 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references. 520 $a On New Year's Day 2013, author Gene Weingarten asked three strangers to, literally, pluck a day, month, and year from a hat. That day turned out to be Sunday, December 28, 1986, by any conventional measure a most ordinary day. That Sunday between Christmas and New Year's turned out to be filled with comedy, tragedy, implausible irony, cosmic comeuppances, kindness, cruelty, heroism, cowardice, genius, idiocy, prejudice, selflessness, coincidence, and startling moments of human connection, along with evocative foreshadowing of momentous events yet to come. Lives were lost. Lives were saved. Lives were altered in overwhelming ways. Many of these events never made it into the news; they were private dramas in the lives of private people. They were utterly compelling. This book took six years to research and write. It asks and answers the question of whether there is even such a thing as "ordinary" when we all lurch and stumble our way through the daily, daunting challenge of being human. 651 0 $a United States $x Social conditions $y 20th century. 651 0 $a United States $x Social life and customs $y 20th century. 651 0 $a United States $v Biography. 655 7 $a Anecdotes. $2 lcgft 655 7 $a Biographies. $2 lcgft 655 7 $a Book club set. $2 local 941 $a 1 952 $l S1PD771 $d 20201021010312.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=B12157AA136211EB81CB539552ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search