Strangers Drowning av Larissa MacFarquhar

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<p><b><i>SUNDAY TIMES and GUARDIAN</i> BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2015<br><br></b>What does it mean to devote yourself wholly to helping others? In <i>Strangers Drowning</i>, Larissa MacFarquhar seeks out people living lives of extreme ethical commitment, and tells their intimate stories: their stubborn integrity and their compromises; their bravery and their recklessness; their wrenching dilemmas.<br><br>A couple adopts two children in distress. But then they think: if they can change two lives, why not four? Or ten? They adopt twenty. But how do they weigh the needs of unknown children in distress against the needs of the children they already have?<br><br>Another couple founds a leprosy colony in the wilderness in India, living in huts with no walls, knowing that their two small children may contract leprosy or be eaten by panthers. The children survive. But what if they hadn''t? How would their parents'' risk have been judged?<br><br>We honour such generosity and high ideals; but when we ca