Dispatches From the Edge_ A Memoir of War, Disasters, and Survival - Anderson Cooper
Introduction
I WAS TEN WHEN my father died, and before that moment, that slap of silence that reset the clock, I can’t remember much. There are some things, of course—fractals, shards of memory, sharp as broken glass. I remember an old globe that sat on the table by my bed. I must have been five or six. It was a present from my mother, who’d received it from the author Isak Dinesen, long after she’d written Out of Africa.
When I couldn’t sleep, I’d touch the globe, trace the contours of co ...