Fall 2023

Winner of the 2021 Rachel Carson Environmental Book Award
Winner of the 2021 Maine Literary Award for Nonfiction

The book is part memoir, part investigative journalism, in which the author explores the history of her small hometown of Mexico, Maine, where generations of families - including her own - have worked in the paper mills, played in its rivers, attended its schools, worshipped in its churches, and died. A number of themes relevant to public health are threaded through the book, including environmental justice, income inequality, displacement and migration, and political activism. 

Interview with Kerri Arsenault, Maine Public's All Books Considered