The 2019 Pulitzer Prize Winners have been announced, and AMITY AND PROSPERITY: One Family and the Fracturing of America by Eliza Griswold takes the win in General Nonfiction!
In AMITY AND PROSPERITY, the prizewinning poet and journalist Eliza Griswold tells the story of the energy boom’s impact on a small town at the edge of Appalachia and one woman’s transformation from a struggling single parent to an unlikely activist.
NYT Notable Book of 2018
NYT Critics’ Top Book of 2018
“An important addition to the emerging genre of works about fracking and its environmental and human costs. This will find large audiences among concerned citizens and warrants the attention of public officials as well as fans of J.D. Vance’s HILLBILLY ELEGY.”–Library Journal, starred review
“Griswold’s empathetic yet analytical account of Haney’s indefatigable role as advocate for justice is a thorough and thoroughly blood-pressure-raising account of the greed and fraud embedded in the environmentally ruinous natural-gas industry. As honest and unvarnished an account of the human cost of corporate corruption as one will find.”–Booklist, starred review