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Tom Wooten

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Born

in Boston, The United States

Website

http://www.thefloodbook.com

Genre

History, Nonfiction

Influences

Marshall Ganz, Geoffrey Canada ...more

Member Since

January 2010

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Tom Wooten grew up outside of Boston and attended college at Harvard, which much to his embarrassment at the time, was a mere thirty minute bike ride away from his childhood home. For all four years of college, he and his roommate Utpal Sandesara worked to complete a narrative nonfiction account of the deadly flood that had washed away the industrial city of Morbi in India, where Utpal's family lived.

After two months of field research in India, during which Tom was struck by the heavy handedness of government-led rebuilding efforts, he returned to the US with a burning desire to learn more about disaster recovery. Specifically, he sought ways in which survivors could take full control over rebuilding their lives and their communities. New ...more

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	No One Had a Tongue to Speak: The Untold Story of One of History's Deadliest Floods by Utpal Sandesara (Goodreads Author), Tom Wooten (Goodreads Author), Paul Farmer (Foreword) 4.27 avg rating — 45 ratings — published 2011 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	We Shall Not Be Moved: Rebuilding Home in the Wake of Katrina 3.95 avg rating — 40 ratings — published 2012 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	We Shall Not Be Moved: Rebuilding Home in the Wake of Katrina by Tom Wooten (2014-11-25) by Tom Wooten (Goodreads Author), Unknown Author 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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