From the National Book Award winner a powerful and timely rumination on how we can draw on historical examples of survivor power to understand the upheaval and death caused by the COVID19 pandemicand collectively healampamp34Lifton shows us why we must confront reality in order to save democracy.ampamp34 ampamp8212Peter Balakian Pulitzer Prizewinning author ofampamp160Ozone JournalIn this moving and ultimately hopeful meditation on the psychological aftermath of catastrophe awardwinning psychiatrist Robert Jay Lifton calls forth his lifes work to show us how to cope with the lasting effects and legacy of the COVID19 pandemic. The result is a thoughtprovoking examination of life in the face of COVID19 from one of the most profound thinkers of our time.ampamp10When the people of Hiroshima experienced the unspeakable horror of the atomic bombing they responded by creating an activist ampamp8220city of peace.ampamp8221 Survivors of the Nazi death camps took the lead in combating mass killing of any kind and converted their experience into art and literature that demonstrated the resilience of the human spirit. Drawing on the remarkably lifeaffirming responses of survivors of such atrocities Lifton ampamp8220one of the worldampamp8217s foremost thinkers on why we humans do such awful things to each otherampamp8221 Bill Moyers shows readers how we can carry on and live meaningful lives even in the face of the tragic and the absurd.ampamp10Surviving Our Catastrophes offers compelling examples of ampamp8220survivor powerampamp8221 and makes clear that we will not move forward by denying the true extent of the pandemicampamp8217s destruction.