"Lyrical, imaginative, beautifully crafted, and deeply intelligent. Before anything else, its characters take you by the heart." - Barbara Kingsolver "[It] has an edgy beauty that enhances perfectly the seriousness of its contents." - Toni Morrison "THE BOOK OF DEAD BIRDS is a story of healing--a skillful, textured weaving of dark and light." - Donna M. Gershten, author of KISSING THE VIRGIN'S MOUTH "The plight of the mother and daughter is …...

"Erin Brockovich meets Dark Waters in this propulsive and heart-wrenching legal drama set in Appalachian coal country, as one determined lawyer confronts a coal industry giant in a battle over clean drinking water for a West Virginia community--from Wall Street Journal reporter Kris Maher. For two decades, the water in the taps and wells of Mingo County didn't look, smell, or taste right. Could it be the root of the health problems--from kidney stones...

"This book makes explicit the racial, ethnic, and gendered forms of environmental injustice that culminate from the collective, intersecting, and multi-scaler consequences of a seemingly anonymous authoritarian state willing to maintain white supremacy at any cost, including poisoning an entire city and shutting off water to thousands of people"--