Amity and Prosperity by Eliza Griswold

   Amity and Prosperity by Eliza Griswold

    I picked this book up at Barnes and Noble as a buy one get one 50% off deal. I don't usually allow myself to get books there but it had been a while. This book won the Pulitzer Prize, don't remember what year but it's recent. It's about a family and town that had a private fracking company come into their town and upend their lives. The company Range came in to a rural PA town where many where not well off, and at first many people including the family this story centered on were enthusiastic about this economic opportunity. Things changed once the water and air became contaminated and the family became sick. In addition to the kids getting sick, over years, animals died or became sick on the farm too. Eventually the family moved off the farm and brought a lawsuit to Range, and won, although they never received much compensation for the years of trouble they went through. From the loss of livestock, their homes, their health, both mental and physical. I know this is a hot button issue(fracking) but in this case the company were extremely negligent, on their operations at the sites to forging tests on the water and air to working with the government to hide or further their agenda. The author wrote extremely well and was really well researched and laid out over many years. Hard to read but the family remained intact at the end.  
5/5 stars  

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