![]() ![]() But I admire Gonzales’ writing immensely, and have learned so much about resilience and human courage from his other books, Deep Survival and Surviving Survival, that I reluctantly cracked the spine of Flight 232. Reading an in-depth account of a plane crash that happened in 1989 didn’t seem like my idea of a good summer book. I have a confession: I did not want to read Laurence Gonzales’ latest book, Flight 232. ![]()
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