Because these two towns a few hours drive out of Pittsburgh
deserve the ink that Griswold spills on this book published in June 2018.
The subtitle, “One Family and the Fracturing of America,”
takes away the guesswork.
Want to get a taste of what it is really like to be on the
front lines in America’s resource growth economy?
Do you feel, at the end of the day, that local, state or
federal governments are working to your benefit?
Does it stand to reason that the same old arguments from the
same old political parties will find any traction in a places like Prosperity
and Amity, where families are fractured, not in the way that so many
commentators feel free to posit, i.e., as a matter of character of strength –
by being strung out on opioids in jobless wastelands?
In what seems the endless campaign, we are less than 13
months away from the next national election.
“Prosperity and Amity” is no “Hillbilly Elegy.” This is the real
deal. These are real heroes here. Told in a slow-moving book that pays homage
to the noble character of the family members who Griswold came to know during
her years writing about natural gas developers and their neighbors.
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