The Book of What Stays Giorgio Mariani Had it not been for

Had it not been for a series of fortuitous events and the dedication of his granddaughters

Many others have faced life-changing natural disasters

" accommodate Christianity to the reigning consumer culture

and the ideology underpinning the totalitarian state

In volume I the contemporary idea of democracy is examined

The Book of What Stays Giorgio Mariani Had it not been forFor any of us, what stays? For the arsonist's wife who has not yet left? The devout saint trudging another mile in his nail shoes? The lost couple in their dying moments in a Nebraska blizzard? The old woman who refuses to leave her home in Chernobyl? With an unflinching eye, James Crews gives us the forbidden love, forbidden unions, and secret lives that, whatever the loss, the attrition, the cost, we must acknowledge, must hold, must keep. And here,