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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...

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Main Author: Arsenault, Kerri (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : St. Martin's Press, 2020.
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Arsenault, Kerri > Family.
Working class > Maine > Mexico (Town) > Biography.
Mexico (Me. : Town) > Social life and customs.
Rumford (Me.) > Social life and customs.
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.
Biographies.
Anecdotes.
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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.

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