Patricia Perry Donovan, Author at Women Writers, Women's Books https://booksbywomen.org/author/patriciadonovan/ Mon, 14 Aug 2017 22:16:44 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.3 39938774 Writing in Disaster’s Wake https://booksbywomen.org/writing-in-disasters-wake-by-patricia-perry-donovan/ https://booksbywomen.org/writing-in-disasters-wake-by-patricia-perry-donovan/#respond Tue, 15 Aug 2017 06:34:29 +0000 http://booksbywomen.org/?p=20074 In January 2013, less than three months after Hurricane Sandy struck the East Coast, an audience of volunteers studied the diagram on the screen. Titled “Emotional Phases of a Disaster,” the figure resembled a tremulous, lopsided W, each point labeled with a stage in a community’s typical reaction to catastrophe: Pre-Disaster, Impact, Heroic, Honeymoon, Disillusionment […]

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