Fellows
“Her sensitive and judicious new book… is neither an outraged sermon delivered from a populist soapbox nor a pinched, professorial lecture.”
Eliza Griswold (CRF 2011)’s new book is entitled “Amity and Prosperity: One Family and the Fracturing of America”. Griswold, a journalist and a poet, paid close attention to a community in southwestern Pennsylvania over the course of seven years to convey its confounding experience with hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, a process that injects water and chemicals deep into the ground in order to shake loose deposits of natural gas.