Mill Town : Reckoning with What Remains Free Download

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Publisher: St. Martin's Publishing Group
Genres: Biography: Historical, History Of The Americas, Memoirs Books
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Pages: 368 pages
ISBN10: 1250155932
ISBN13: 9781250155931
Tags: Biography: Historical, History Of The Americas, Memoirs Books, Free Download, PDF Download
Language: en
Physical Form: eBook
Type: PDF

One of O Magazine's Best Books of Fall 2020
Newsweek’s “Must-Read Fall Nonfiction”
A Publishers Weekly Top 10 books for Politics & Current Events

Mill Town is a powerful, blistering, devastating book. Kerri Arsenault is both a graceful writer and a grieving daughter in search of answers and ultimately, justice. In telling the story of the town where generations of her family have lived and died, she raises important and timely questions.”--Dani Shapiro, author of Inheritance

Kerri Arsenault grew up in the rural working class town of Mexico, Maine. For over 100 years the community orbited around a paper mill that employs most townspeople, including three generations of Arsenault’s own family. Years after she moved away, Arsenault realized the price she paid for her seemingly secure childhood. The mill, while providing livelihoods for nearly everyone, also contributed to the destruction of the environment and the decline of the town’s economic, physical, and emotional health in a slow-moving catastrophe, earning the area the nickname “Cancer Valley.”

Mill Town is a personal investigation, where Arsenault sifts through historical archives and scientific reports, talks to family and neighbors, and examines her own childhood to illuminate the rise and collapse of the working-class, the hazards of loving and leaving home, and the ambiguous nature of toxins and disease. Mill Town is a moral wake-up call that asks, Whose lives are we willing to sacrifice for our own survival?

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