{"product_id":"mill-town-reckoning-with-what-remains-9781250799685","title":"Mill Town: Reckoning with What Remains","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eMill Town\u003c\/i\u003e [Kerri] Arsenault pays loving homage to her family's tight-knit Maine town even as she examines the cancers that have stricken so many residents.\"--\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eMill Town\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eInheritance\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eKerri 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.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eMill Town \u003c\/i\u003eis 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. \u003ci\u003eMill Town\u003c\/i\u003e is a moral wake-up call that asks, \u003ci\u003eWhose lives are we willing to sacrifice for our own survival?\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e St. Martin's Griffin\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/07\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781250799685\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 368","brand":"Kerri Arsenault","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40721548771509,"sku":"9781250799685","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_99c859cb-25a0-4574-ba43-d2ba6e45f59d.jpg?v=1628607050","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/mill-town-reckoning-with-what-remains-9781250799685","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}