September 10, Sunday 5pm Join author Kerri Arsenault discussing her book Mill Town: Reckoning with What Remains. “In this masterful debut, the author creates a crisp, eloquent hybrid of atmospheric memoir and searing exposé. She writes urgently about the dire effects the mill’s toxic legacy had on Mexico’s residents and the area’s ecology while evocatively mining the emotional landscape of caretaking for aging parents and rediscovering the roots of her childhood. Bittersweet memories and a long-buried atrocity combine for a heartfelt, unflinching, striking narrative combination.” Kirkus Review
I grew up in the small, rural town of Mexico, Maine, where for over 100 years the community orbited around a paper mill that provided jobs for nearly everyone in town, including three generations of my family. I had a happy childhood, but years after I moved away, I realized the price I paid for that childhood. The price everyone paid. The mill, while providing the social, cultural, and economic cohesion for the community, also contributed to its demise. This is a book about environmental and family legacies.
Mill Town is printed on paper bleached without chlorine gas, chlorine dioxide, or any other chlorine-based bleaching agent; ask your workplace, your school, your publisher to find and use the same.
Book trailer HERE, if you are interested. Also, you can find links of full reviews, other press, interviews, etc. over on my MEDIA page, and if you missed an event and it was recorded, you can find those videos HERE.
Kerri Arsenault-Author Series
September 10, Sunday 5pm Join author Kerri Arsenault discussing her book Mill Town: Reckoning with What Remains. “In this masterful debut, the author creates a crisp, eloquent hybrid of atmospheric memoir and searing exposé. She writes urgently about the dire effects the mill’s toxic legacy had on Mexico’s residents and the area’s ecology while evocatively mining the emotional landscape of caretaking for aging parents and rediscovering the roots of her childhood. Bittersweet memories and a long-buried atrocity combine for a heartfelt, unflinching, striking narrative combination.” Kirkus Review
About Mill Town
https://www.kerri-arsenault.com/
I grew up in the small, rural town of Mexico, Maine, where for over 100 years the community orbited around a paper mill that provided jobs for nearly everyone in town, including three generations of my family. I had a happy childhood, but years after I moved away, I realized the price I paid for that childhood. The price everyone paid. The mill, while providing the social, cultural, and economic cohesion for the community, also contributed to its demise. This is a book about environmental and family legacies.
Mill Town is printed on paper bleached without chlorine gas, chlorine dioxide, or any other chlorine-based bleaching agent; ask your workplace, your school, your publisher to find and use the same.
Book trailer HERE, if you are interested. Also, you can find links of full reviews, other press, interviews, etc. over on my MEDIA page, and if you missed an event and it was recorded, you can find those videos HERE.
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