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Tsunami Recovery and 'The Big Wave'

By Jacki Lyden
Published December 31, 2004 at 9:00 PM PST

NPR's Jacki Lyden reads from Nobel prize-winning author Pearl S. Buck's children's book The Big Wave — a story of a tsunami and its aftermath, set in Japan.

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