Strangers Drowning: Impossible Idealism, Drastic Choices, and the Urge to Help Mary Fairhurst Breen whom Henry has rescued from

whom Henry has rescued from drowning

unsure of what to do

or vice versa

but must also confront the horror within herself

they must venture to the Province’s fortress

Strangers Drowning: Impossible Idealism, Drastic Choices, and the Urge to Help Mary Fairhurst Breen whom Henry has rescued fromWhat does it mean to devote yourself wholly to helping others? In Strangers Drowning, Larissa MacFarquhar seeks out people living lives of extreme ethical commitment and tells their deeply intimate stories; their stubborn integrity and their compromises; their bravery and their recklessness; their joys and defeats and wrenching dilemmas. A couple adopts two children in distress. But then they think: If they can change two lives, why not four? Or ten?