Kerri Arsenault

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Illinois

Reckoning with What Remains

Mill Town

f1afa2c4-ff05-4859-bc0a-188ea9c86648-1

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Ohio

A galvanizing and powerful debut, Mill Town is an American story, a human predicament, and a moral wake-up call that asks: what are we willing to tolerate and whose lives are we willing to sacrifice for our own survival? Kerri 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 that 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, moral, and emotional health in a slow-moving catastrophe, earning the area the nickname “Cancer Valley.” In Mill Town, Arsenault undertakes an excavation of a collective past, sifting through historical archives and scientific reports, talking to family and neighbors, and examining her own childhood to present a portrait of a community that illuminates not only the ruin of her hometown and the collapse of the working-class of America, but also the hazards of both living in and leaving home, and the silences we are all afraid to violate. In exquisite prose, Arsenault explores the corruption of bodies: the human body, bodies of water, and governmental bodies, and what it’s like to come from a place you love but doesn’t always love you back.

Category - Non Fiction / Social Science

Format - Paperback

Condition - Like New

Listed - 4 months ago

Views - 3

Ships From - Illinois

Est. Publication Date - Sep 2021

Mill Town: Reckoning with What Remains

ISBN: 9781250799685

Publisher Description

Mill Town

By:

$2.00

Meet the seller

Discover more

Mill Town

By: Kerri Arsenault

Pango Buyer Protection

More from this seller

Additional titles by Kerri Arsenault

'Mill Town' readers also enjoyed:

Recently Viewed

Browse by categories

Category - Non Fiction / Social Science

Format - Paperback

Condition - Like New

Listed - 4 months ago

Views - 3

Ships From - Illinois

Est. Publication Date - Sep 2021

Mill Town: Reckoning with What Remains

ISBN: 9781250799685

Publisher Description

Mill Town

By:

$2.00

Meet the seller

Discover more

Mill Town

By: Kerri Arsenault

Pango Buyer Protection

More from this seller

Additional titles by Kerri Arsenault

'Mill Town' readers also enjoyed:

Recently Viewed