"Something is crawling over my face. My body turns to stone as panic takes hold of me, and I freeze with fear. Then I hear loud banging sounds, growing louder and louder. Everything begins to throb, a steady pulse beating all around me. I feel the texture with my hand; it's sticky and warm. The taste of metal floods my mouth all at once. Blood."

Incredibly moving and powerful, Unburied is the harrowing memoir of a young woman's journey to survive in a foreign land following one of the worst natural disasters in history.

Having arrived in China only three months earlier, twenty-seven-year-old Maayan Sebbag and her friend decided to visit the Chinese countryside in Sichuan when the worst earthquake in Chinese memory hit the region, burying them both under the ruins. Wreathed in darkness, gasping for the smallest breath of dense, polluted air, Maayan wakes up knowing one thing: she is about to die.

Her face broken and bleeding from intense injuries after having a near-death experience, Maayan makes the impossible decision not to wait for a rescue but to find one herself. Constantly on the verge of death with nothing but hope and a backpack, she begins the three-day trek to the hospital in Chengdu through the wild landscapes of southern China. Over literal mountains and raging rivers, flooded villages, and chaos, Maayan's story is an uncanny testament to resilience and bravery, a reminder of the enormous strength that we have within all of us in a time of need, as well as the rare but life-changing kindness of complete strangers.

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