I'm looking for fiction books that (accurately) portray disasters that really happened from the inside.
I love historical fiction. I'm currently reading Ground Zero by Alan Gratz, about a boy who's high up in the North Tower during the 9/11 attack. Obviously it's horrible but I realized I never had a feeling of how 9/11 really went down. I'm not American so we didn't pay too much attention to it in school and while it is obviously known here, it's not that big of a deal if that makes sense. Reading this book is opening my eyes to what really went down and how impactful an event it was. I also feel like I grasp the gravity of it more, knowing something is bad is one thing but understanding it is another. It's really putting the whole thing in perspective.
So I'm looking for more books that do this. With disasters I mean events like 9/11 or Chernobyl, but also natural disasters like tsunamis or hurricanes. There are obviously many disasters that hugely impacted the countries where they happened but in the west only made it on trending news for a couple days, maybe weeks, and then disappeared from our radar. Many (like 9/11) I would have also been too young to even really notice at the time.
Any historical period and event is good. Please neither of the World Wars though, as a European I've learned plenty about those and plenty of books on the topic have already been read or added to the TBR.
I hope it's not too grim of a topic, I don't mean any disrespect to people who were impacted by 9/11 or another major event. I just want to learn about them from an inside perspective rather than the fact-rambling and distant reporting we normally see.
by Lucyfer_66