Eliza Griswold, "Amity and Prosperity"

Eliza Griswold discusses her book, "Amity and Prosperity", at Politics and Prose on 6/19/18.

For the poor rural community of Amity, Pennsylvania, the money offered by energy companies who wanted the rights to the town’s abundant natural gas was a dream come true. Then, as animals began to die and people developed mysterious illnesses, the dream became a nightmare. In this eye-opening exposé of the social and environmental costs of fracking, Griswold, who won the J. Anthony Lukas Prize for The Tenth Parallel, tells the story of one woman’s crusade to uncover corporate malfeasance. The book follows lifelong Amity resident Stacey Haney as she took her case to court, mediated her bitterly divided community, and eventually reshaped its attitudes toward big business.

This event is presented in partnership with PEN America.

Eliza Griswold, a Guggenheim fellow, is the author of a collection of poems, Wideawake Field (FSG, 2007), and a nonfiction book, The Tenth Parallel: Dispatches from the Fault Line Between Christianity and Islam (FSG, 2010), a New York Times bestseller that was awarded the J. Anthony Lukas Prize. She is the translator of I Am the Beggar of the World: Landays from Contemporary Afghanistan (FSG, 2015).

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