SF journalist details devastating 2015 shipwreck in ‘A Greek Tragedy’   - Local News Matters

SF journalist details devastating 2015 shipwreck in ‘A Greek Tragedy’   - Local News Matters

San Francisco journalist Jeanne Carstensen shines a light on the humanity underlying a recent historic event in “A Greek Tragedy: One Day, a Deadly Shipwreck, and the Human Cost of the Refugee Crisis (Simon and Schuster, 288 pages, $28.99, March 25, 2025),” which she spent six years researching. On Oct. 28, 2015, in the height of the Syrian refugee crisis, a boat filled with immigrants from Turkey shipwrecked off the Greek island of Lesvos, resu…