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I grew up in Los Angeles in the 1970s and 1980s, when toxic pollution hung in the air and tainted the drinking water, ocean, and soil in ways much more plainly evident than today. Because of this, I am drawn to investigative journalism that holds industrial polluters to account.
This is a towering work of narrative journalism that explains the causes of a mysterious cancer cluster in a bucolic town on the New Jersey shore. Fagin unspools the knotty science of epidemiology with the on-the-ground reality of a small town coming to grips with a rising, mysterious cancer epidemic.
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