Amity and Prosperity: One Family and the Fracturing of America

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By Eliza Griswold ’95

Published Feb. 21, 2019

Prize-winning poet and journalist Eliza Griswold ’95 spent seven years following the story of a small town in the Appalachia afflicted by mysterious illnesses after striking a deal with a Texas-based energy company. Amity and Prosperity (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) focuses on single parent Stacey Haney, who becomes an unlikely activist after her children become sick and fights to expose the damage being done to her land and her family.

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