{"product_id":"everything-in-its-path-kai-t-erikson-9780671240677","title":"Everything in Its Path","description":"The 1977 Sorokin Award-winning story of Buffalo Creek in the aftermath of a devastating flood. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOn February 26, 1972, 132-million gallons of debris-filled muddy water burst through a makeshift mining-company dam and roared through Buffalo Creek, a narrow mountain hollow in West Virginia. Following the flood, survivors from a previously tightly knit community were crowded into trailer homes with no concern for former neighborhoods. The result was a collective trauma that lasted longer than the individual traumas caused by the original disaster. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMaking extensive use of the words of the people themselves, Erikson details the conflicting tensions of mountain life in general--the tensions between individualism and dependency, self-assertion and resignation, self-centeredness and group orientation--and examines the loss of connection, disorientation, declining morality, rise in crime, rise in out-migration, etc., that resulted from the sudden loss of neighborhood.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Kai T. Erikson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0671240676\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780671240677\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Simon \u0026amp; Schuster\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/15\/1978\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 288\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.82lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.42h x 5.33w x 0.72d","brand":"Kai T. Erikson","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44131620028671,"sku":"9780671240677","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_9db72ee4-7200-44ca-bd5e-200b99d34da3.jpg?v=1687475447","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/everything-in-its-path-kai-t-erikson-9780671240677","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}