PositiveLos Angeles Review of Books... chapter one is a lull in an otherwise compelling book—a dry accounting of Europeans settling the New World while hurricanes interfered. The story picks back up when Benjamin Franklin watches what he believes are two consecutive storms ... Dolin takes full advantage of the time-honored character versus nature story and the natural narrative arc of a hurricane. He pulls details from newspaper coverage, journals, books, and oral histories. With active language and sharp characters, he puts us in scene ... Thanks to Dolin’s reporting and framing, each hurricane is a different story that delivers its own lesson about human nature.
