Out of the Whirlwind

The book is a narrative approach to network science and especially the role of concentration risk in networks of all kinds. A focus on the life of one Puerto Rican family (a composite sketch of the dozens of interviews of those who experienced Hurricane Maria) will personalize and contextualize underlying and predictable principles of network behavior. The more concentrated a network, the more likely it is productive and efficient. But the same concentration producing these positive outcomes increases the risk of catastrophic network failure.