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Amity and Prosperity: One Family and the Fracturing of America

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. Stacey Haney is a local nurse working hard to raise two kids and keep up her small farm when the fracking industry comes to her hometown of Amity, Pennsylvania. Intrigued by reports of lucrative natural gas leases in her neighbors' mailboxes, she strikes a deal with a Texas-based energy company. Soon trucks begin rumbling past her farm, a fenced-off drill site rises on an adjacent hilltop, and domestic animals and pets start to die. When mysterious sicknesses begin to afflict her children, she appeals to the company for help. Its representatives insist that nothing is wrong.

Politics & GovernmentPolitics & Government · medium confidencePolitics & Government81 signalsLlm Classifier: Politics & Government -> Politics & GovernmentKeyword Classifier: Business & Economics -> Business & EconomicsKeyword Classifier: Gender & Sexuality -> Gender & SexualityScience & DiscoveryEnvironment, Conservation & PollutionClimate, Weather & Disaster

Award History

2 wins · 5 total

AwardYearResultCategory / Notes
Pulitzer Prize in General NonfictionMajor2019WinnerSecondary source
Ridenhour Book Prize2019WinnerSecondary source
Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Science and TechnologyMajor2018FinalistSecondary source
Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in Journalism2019FinalistSecondary source
PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction2019FinalistSource URL pending
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  1. 01 Central figures

    • Stacey Haney86%

  2. 02 Central places

    • Amity, Pennsylvania78%
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    • Texas38%

  3. 03 Suggested argument

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  4. 04 Reading orientation

    35 / 100 academic

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Confidence percentages are the model's own estimates. Profile confidence: 82%.