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Amity and Prosperity by Eliza Griswold
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it was amazing

There were other impacts from the fracking boom and the Haneys were feeling them. Over the course of eight years, as Eliza Griswold tracks this family in this powerful book, they lose their health, their animals, their house, and their trust in just about everyone except a pair of crusading lawyers who tilt at the windmills of industry and the government agencies that should be protecting them.

Amity and Prosperity is the kind of propulsive read that marks our great story-telling journalist/writers today. Griswold uses her extensive visits to the region and understanding of this one family to tell a story that is much larger. She is telling us about small things like county fairs, hard-working single mothers, the ties that bind together neighbors, and the persistent pleasures of small town life. But she’s also telling us about God, politics, government, industry, and the perils of living in a resource-rich, desperately poor region.

It’s about America, and given the state of things at the moment, that makes it a tumultuous read.

Read my full review on Heartlands...https://alexjoyner.com/2018/07/03/fra....

Full disclosure: Farrar, Strauss & Giroux provided a copy in exchange for an honest review.
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Reading Progress

June 20, 2018 – Started Reading
June 20, 2018 – Shelved
June 21, 2018 –
page 29
9.12%
June 24, 2018 –
page 55
17.3%
June 25, 2018 –
page 68
21.38%
June 26, 2018 –
page 78
24.53%
June 27, 2018 –
page 85
26.73%
June 29, 2018 –
page 136
42.77%
June 30, 2018 –
page 148
46.54%
July 1, 2018 – Finished Reading

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