Braving Home: Dispatches from the Underwater Town, the Lava-Side Inn, and Other Extreme Locales

A journalist visits five of America's disaster-zone towns and the devoted residents who chose to stay despite hellish conditions.

As a young reporter, Jake Halpern became obsessed with stories about "some outlandish and often hellish place inhabited by a handful of stalwarts who refused to leave." His fellow reporters joked with him and nicknamed him the Bad Homes Correspondent. But the more he learned about these people, the more he was drawn to them. Braving Home is Halpern's irresisti...