Amity and Prosperity: One Family and the Fracturing of America by Griswold, Eliza

Amity and Prosperity: One Family and the Fracturing of America

Winner of the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for General NonfictionIn Amity and Prosperity, the prizewinning poet and journalist...
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Amity and Prosperity: One Family and the Fracturing of America by Griswold, Eliza

Amity and Prosperity: One Family and the Fracturing of America

$71.35

Amity and Prosperity: One Family and the Fracturing of America

$71.35
Author: Eliza Griswold
Format: Hardcover
Language: English

Winner of the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction

In Amity and Prosperity, the prizewinning poet and journalist Eliza Griswold tells the story of the energy boom's impact on a small town at the edge of Appalachia and one woman's transformation from a struggling single parent to an unlikely activist.

Stacey 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 neighbors' 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 help. Its representatives insist that nothing is wrong.

Alarmed by her children's illnesses, Haney joins with neighbors and a committed husband-and-wife legal team to investigate what's really in the water and air. Against local opposition, Haney and her allies doggedly pursue their case in court and begin to expose the damage that's being done to the land her family has lived on for centuries. Soon a community that has long been suspicious of outsiders faces wrenching new questions about who is responsible for their fate, and for redressing it: The faceless corporations that are poisoning the land? The environmentalists who fail to see their economic distress? A federal government that is mandated to protect but fails on the job? Drawing on seven years of immersive reporting, Griswold reveals what happens when an imperiled town faces a crisis of values, and a family wagers everything on an improbable quest for justice.

Author: Eliza Griswold
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 06/12/2018
Pages: 336
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.20lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.30w x 1.20d
ISBN: 9780374103118


Award: Pulitzer Prize - Winner


Review Citation(s):
Library Journal Prepub Alert 01/01/2018 pg. 65
Kirkus Reviews 05/01/2018
Publishers Weekly 05/14/2018
Library Journal 06/01/2018 pg. 109
BookPage 06/01/2018
Booklist 06/01/2018 pg. 4
Shelf Awareness 06/22/2018

About the Author

Eliza Griswold is the author of The Tenth Parallel: Dispatches from the Fault Line Between Christianity and Islam, which won the 2011 J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize. Her translations of Afghan women's folk poems, I Am the Beggar of the World, was awarded the 2015 PEN Award for Poetry in Translation. She has held fellowships from the New America Foundation, the Guggenheim Foundation, and Harvard University, and in 2010
the American Academy in Rome awarded her the Rome Prize for her poems. Currently a Distinguished Writer in Residence at New York University, she lives in New York with her husband and son.




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