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Mill Town, Kerri Arsenault

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Mill Town

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Kerri Arsenault

"Kerri Arsenault grew up in the rural town of Mexico, Maine, where for over one hundred years the community orbited around a paper mill that provided jobs for most townspeople, including three generations of her own family. She had a happy childhood, but years after she moved away, Arsenault realized the price she paid for that 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." In Mill Town, Arsenault excavates the past and present, sifts through historical archives and scientific reports, talks to family and neighbors, and examines her own childhood to illuminate not only the ruin of her hometown and the collapse of the working-class, but the hazards of loving and leaving home. Mill Town is a moral wake-up call that asks, Whose lives are we willing to sacrifice for our own survival?"--, Provided by publisher

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