{"product_id":"amity-and-prosperity-9781472268723","title":"Amity and Prosperity","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e''At heart a David and Goliath story fit for the movies ... [A] valuable, discomforting book'' \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSeven years in the making, \u003ci\u003eAmity and Prosperity\u003c\/i\u003e tells the story of the energy boom''s impact on a small town at the edge of Appalachia and of one woman''s transformation from a struggling single parent to an unlikely activist.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eStacey Haney is a local nurse working hard to raise two kids and keep up her small farm when the fracking boom comes to her hometown of Amity, Pennsylvania. Intrigued by reports of lucrative natural gas leases in her neighbours'' mailboxes, she strikes a deal with a Texas-based energy company. Soon trucks begin rumbling past her small farm, a fenced-off drill site rises on an adjacent hilltop, and domestic animals and pets start to die. When mysterious sicknesses begin to afflict her children, she appeals to the company for h\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHer \u003cb\u003esensitive and judicious\u003c\/b\u003e new book, \u003ci\u003eAmity and Prosperity: One Family and the Fracturing of America\u003c\/i\u003e, is \u003cb\u003eneither an outraged sermon delivered from a populist soapbox nor a pinched, professorial lecture\u003c\/b\u003e. Griswold, a journalist and a poet, paid close attention to a community in southwestern Pennsylvania over the course of seven years to convey its confounding experience with hydraulic fracturing . . . \u003cb\u003eWhat Griswold depicts is a community, like the earth, cracked open \u003c\/b\u003e. . . Parts of \u003ci\u003eAmity and Prosperity\u003c\/i\u003e read as intimately as a novel, though its insidious, slow-motion ordeal is all too real\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e -- Jennifer Szalai * The New York Times *\u003cbr\u003eA \u003cb\u003ecompelling \u003c\/b\u003etale ... Griswold's latest work may be \u003cb\u003eyour next must-read\u003c\/b\u003e * Forbes *\u003cbr\u003eA \u003cb\u003emorally complex and beautifully-written\u003c\/b\u003e story of Appalachia, of family, of resources we all use. It's about what binds and tears apart a community and a country -- George Packer * author of The Unwinding, Winner of the National Book Award *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRiveting and outraging\u003c\/b\u003e. An \u003cb\u003eessential\u003c\/b\u003e account of corporate wrongdoing, regulatory collusion and citizen resistance in an unequal age -- Katherine Boo * author of Behind the Beautiful Forevers, Winner of the National Book Award *\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAmity and Prosperity\u003c\/i\u003e is \u003cb\u003epart \u003ci\u003eErin Brockovich\u003c\/i\u003e, part \u003ci\u003eHillbilly Elegy\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e. \u003cb\u003eYou'll be inspired\u003c\/b\u003e by [Stacey Haney, Beth Voyles and Kendra Smith] who called B.S. on what was happening around them, pointing a finger at both money-hungry businessmen and day-tripping liberals studying them like specimens. Their galvanizing activism is proof that, to help someone, first you have to listen -- Elisabeth Egan * Glamour *\u003cbr\u003eGriswold creates \u003cb\u003ea complex, elegantly written portrait\u003c\/b\u003e of Stacey and a community ambivalent about the industry they hope can bring prosperity * BBC *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eExpertly constructed\u003c\/b\u003e . . . \u003cb\u003e[Griswold's] relentless, measured narration helped me understand my own blind spots\u003c\/b\u003e - that sadness over ruined views is a kind of class privilege, the outgrowth of a particular stance toward the land . . . \u003cb\u003eThoroughly reported and tightly paced\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003ci\u003eAmity and Prosperity \u003c\/i\u003eis an \u003cb\u003eessential \u003c\/b\u003edocument of the region's latest go-round with the riches underfoot -- Erika Howsare * Los Angeles Review of Books *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eAmity and Prosperity\u003c\/i\u003e is\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003eat heart a David and Goliath story fit for the movies\u003c\/b\u003e. It has everything but a happy ending: bucolic setting concealing fortune and danger; poor but proud locals who've endured sequential boom bust cycles of resource extraction . . . tough, reluctant victim-heroes . . . and a courtroom drama, as a tenacious husband-wife legal team takes on the industry and the state . . . \u003cb\u003e[a]\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003evaluable, discomforting book\u003c\/b\u003e -- JoAnn Wypijewski * The New York Times Book Review *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRiveting\u003c\/b\u003e . . . \u003cb\u003ePage-turner\u003c\/b\u003e . . . If J.D. Vance's \u003ci\u003eHillbilly Elegy\u003c\/i\u003e famously portrayed the Rust Belt ethos of Appalachian transplants into southern Ohio, \u003ci\u003eAmity and Prosperity\u003c\/i\u003e tells with vivid detail the contours of daily life in Washington and Greene counties . . . \u003ci\u003eAmity and Prosperity\u003c\/i\u003e becomes not only a glimpse into postindustrial small towns and the environmental consequences of fracking, but also \u003cb\u003ea legal thriller worthy of any novel by John Grisham\u003c\/b\u003e -- Byron Borger * Pittsburg Post-Gazette *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eMemorable\u003c\/b\u003e . . An \u003cb\u003eimportant\u003c\/b\u003e addition to the emerging genre of works about fracking and its environmental and human costs. This will find large audiences among concerned citizens and \u003cb\u003ewarrants the attention of public officials as well as fans of J.D. Vance's \u003ci\u003eHillbilly Elegy\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e * Library Journal (Starred Review) *\u003cbr\u003eIn her new book, \u003ci\u003eAmity and Prosperity\u003c\/i\u003e, journalist Eliza Griswold provides a \u003cb\u003edeeply human\u003c\/b\u003e counterpoint to this political fray. She takes on the decidedly fraught issue of energy extraction through \u003cb\u003ea vivid, compassionate portrait of one family living in the long shadow of industry\u003c\/b\u003e . . . Griswold chronicles these escalating horrors with disarming intimacy -- Meara Sharma * The Washington Post *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePowerful and deeply humane \u003c\/b\u003e * The National Book Review *\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Headline Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48739447243095,"sku":"9781472268723","price":12.34,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781472268723.jpg?v=1720052269","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/amity-and-prosperity-9781472268723","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}