HURRICANE HAZEL

The book I'm reading right now, have been reading for four months, has a reference to yesterday's date in 1954. Apparently, Hurricane Hazel struck the Toronto area on October 15 of that year, causing widespread destruction.
Something else about this book, "Fugitive Pieces": I have taken to buying the Saturday edition of the New York Times, the edition with the obituaries. I have read the fascinationg lives of so many people who I would never have known except that they died. Today, at the library, I took a break from the book by catching up on the NYT I didn't have time to read on Sunday. I was struck by the life of Norman Salsitz, a Polish survivor of the Holocaust. He pretended to be a Christian to escape the deathcamps. As a partisan he turned his gun on fellow Poles in the Resistance who were just as racist as the Nazis they were fighting.
I guess I needed to hear a different side of the Holocaust from what I am reading in this book. I already know the ending even though it is still a ways away: look in vain for the meaning of madness but find inspiration in the simple heroism of an individual life lived with meaning.
I still haven't figured out who the narrator of the last part of the book is. Anyone from bookclub like to comment?