![]() "Macy brings her empathetic reporter's craft to the oft-ignored problem solvers on the ground-those who, as Macy writes, didn't wait around for justice. ![]() It is Macy's commitment to defamiliarizing the opioid epidemic that has, strangely and thankfully, helped so many Americans understand that none of our families are alone in this brutally pervasive fight for our lives."―Kiese Laymon, author of Heavy Macy finds unfamiliar heroes in places most of us would lack the will or imagination to explore. "As if we needed one more reminder of Beth Macy's phenomenal narrative journalism, RAISING LAZARUS takes us to the front lines of the fight for the nation's health. ―Patrick Radden Keefe, bestselling author of Empire of Pain In that respect, this is a surprisingly hopeful book, the tale of a catastrophic crisis, but also of profound compassion and the resilience of the human spirit.” ![]() RAISING LAZARUS is a necessary companion to the urgent story she told in DOPESICK, a deeply reported, deeply moving, boots on the ground picture of what the crisis of addiction is doing to our country, and of the activists and ordinary people who are working to fight it. ![]() At the Community Storehouse in Ridgeway, volunteers can divine what people used to do by their ailments: Women who’d been bent over sewing machines all day making sweatshirts had humps on their backs. Beth Macy is one of the great chroniclers of how we got here and where we are headed. Beth Macy Talks Upcoming Book on Globalization, by Mary Ogilvie, The Daily Collegian, Penn State University, Oct. ![]() “When the Covid epidemic seized the headlines, America's overdose epidemic did not go away in fact, it intensified. For more information on the book club, click here. ![]()
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