Nonfiction Book Group
Tuesday, May 12, 2015 at 6:30 p.m.
upstairs in the library
Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award
First Book Club pick for NPR's Morning Edition
"The best book I've read all year . . . Riveting . . . A masterpiece of compassion." - Ann Patchett
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Héctor Tobar received exclusive access to the miners and their tales, crafting a haunting masterwork from their surreal experiences and from his intensive research on the extraordinary rescue mission. When the San José Mine outside of Copiapó, Chile, collapsed, on August 5, 2010, it trapped the miners beneath thousands of feet of rock for a record-breaking sixty-nine days.
The entire world watched, but until the publication of Deep Down Dark, did not have access to the full story. Even while still buried, the miners all agreed that if by some miracle any of them escaped alive, they would share their story only collectively. Héctor Tobar was the person they chose to hear that story. Deep Down Dark is a stirring portrait of human lives stretched to their physical and spiritual limits.
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