Mill town : reckoning with what remains /

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 ove...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Arsenault, Kerri (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	New York : St. Martin's Press, [2020]
Edition:	First edition.
Subjects:	Arsenault, Kerri > Family. Rumford Mill. Working class > Maine > Mexico (Town) > Biography. Mexico (Me. : Town) > Biography. Mexico (Me. : Town) > Social life and customs. Rumford (Me.) > Biography. Paper industry > Environmental aspects > Maine > Oxford County. Paper industry > Health aspects > Maine > Oxford County. Pollution > Androscoggin River Region (N.H. and Me.) > Anecdotes. Androscoggin River Region (N.H. and Me.) > Environmental conditions. HISTORY / Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies)

Table of Contents:

Preamble
What goes around, comes around
What goes up must come down
Connecting with Dot
Happy days
With great power
Family and other acts of omission
Margins of safety
Vacationland
Interlude
What remains
Strike one, strike two...
Hope springs eternal
Pipe dreams
Going downhill
The end of the line
Buried in paper
The truth lies somewhere
Coda.