Around midnight on June 17, 1979, Air New England Flight 248, en route from New York, crashed into the woods on Cape Cod. The pilot was killed. The first officer and several passengers, struggling to escape the wreckage of the aircraft, clung to life for an hour and a half in the wilderness before rescuers found them. They survived with trauma both physical and emotional. Robert Sabbag, enjoying recent fame as the author of a surprise bestseller, was among them.Down Around Midnight is Sabbag's account of the crash and of his candid attempt to come to terms with its aftermath. He tracks down his fellow survivors, seeing them for the first time since they saved one another's lives in the darkness thirty years before. He talks to firefighters, hospital staff, family members, and others who were present on the night of the tragedy, weaving the narrative between past and present to create a thrilling and affecting story of survival and recovery.Down Around Midnight is fast paced and mesmerizing. At the same time it is a meditation on healing and on the various things we do with traumatic memories. In unlocking the truth of what exactly happened on that foggy night three decades ago, Sabbag writes with the striking economical style characteristic of his best work. The result is an unforgettable personal reflection on how we live with what we can never forget. Read Less