A Day Like Any Other: The Great Hamptons Hurricane of 1938: A Novel [Hardcover]

For those few who still remember, the images are seared into their brains: the corpses floating down Main Street; the boats that drifted into the living rooms of flooded houses; the dead dogs and featherless chickens; the muck and fish stink; the moonscape of flattened houses; the residue of the last great hurricane to hit Long Island, the storm of 1938.  - The New York TimesA Day Like Any Other is an understated title for this richly detailed, knowledgeable and engrossing novel set in a beautiful part of the world at a cataclysmic time. Though hellish to experience, historic hurricanes are fascinating to track in prose.Natures fury, social mischief, human passion -- this vividly reimagined impact of the 1938 killer hurricane on a storied community is riveting fiction that gets at the truth of our own lives. Youll never see the Hamptons  or a sudden rainstorm  the same way again. Wow. Another perfect storm. I loved it.This terrifying take on what happened in the Hamptons at summers end, 1938, reminds us that climate is bigger by far than we are, and we should not engage in changing it.In this age of sound bites and superficiality, here, miraculously, is a richly textured novel that takes its time in the interest of a bigger emotional payoff for its grateful readers. Genie Chipps Henderson has conjured fact-based fiction that reads credibly and poignantly as it explores the complexities of our flawed humanity and the sometimes-fierce vagaries of weather.A bucolic resort setting -- the summer colony and locals are caught in the path of a sudden and devastating hurricane in this brilliant and prophetic fiction that is a warning of storms to come.