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ON, MAY 2, 2008, an enormous tropical cyclone made landfall in Burma, wreaking untold havoc and departing an official toll of 138,300 useless and missing. In the times that followed, the sheer scale of the devastation became noticeable as information commenced to seep out from the hard-hit delta area. But the Burmese regime, within an unfathomable decision of near-genocidal proportions, provided light relief to its enduring population and clogged international aid from entering the country. Hundreds of thousands of Burmese citizens lacked food, normal water, and basic shelter, but the xenophobic generals who rule the country refused emergency help. Emma Larkin, who have been planing a trip to and secretly confirming on Burma for a long time, managed to request a holiday visa in those frenzied times and arrived expecting to help. It was impossible for anybody to gauge just how much devastation the cyclone experienced still left in its wake; by all accounts, including the regime's, it was a catastrophe of epic proportions. In Everything Is Cracked, Larkin chronicles the chaotic times and weeks that followed the storm, exposing the secretive politics of Burma's armed service dictatorship and the bizarre combination of vicious armed service force, faith, and mysticism that identified its unthinkable response to the horrific event. The Burmese regime hid the full amount of the storm's devastation from the rest of the world, but the terrible results for Burma and its own citizens continue to play out weeks after the headlines experienced faded from papers about the world. In Everything Is Cracked, Larkin---whose deep knowledge of the Burmese people has afforded her unprecedented access and a unusual knowledge of life under Burmese oppression---provides a singular portrait of the regime accountable for compounding the tragedy and examines the historical, religious, and superstitious setting that created Burma's tenacious and brutal dictatorship.
