RaveNew York Times Book ReviewThe extraordinary story of how some neighbors of hog operations in North Carolina battled a meatpacking company polluting their neighborhoods ... Addison, an attorney and best-selling novelist, is the ideal writer to tell this story ... Wastelands is full of memorable people ... Corban Addison hasn’t written a polemic about hog factories ... He has calmly assembled a legal thriller, full of energy and compassion, that addresses issues of real importance, like the works of John Grisham and Scott Turow. Grisham wrote the foreword to this book, and in it, he says: \'Beautifully written, impeccably researched, and told with the air of suspense that few writers can handle, Wastelands is a story I wish I had written.\' I agree with Grisham. But I wish that Wastelands were a work of dystopian science fiction, not a damning portrait of how we feed ourselves now.
Asne Seierstad
RaveThe New York Times Book ReviewOne of Us has the feel of a nonfiction novel. Like Norman Mailer’s The Executioner’s Song and Truman Capote’s In Cold Blood, it has an omniscient narrator who tells the story of brutal murders and, by implication, sheds light on the society partly responsible for them. Although those two books are beautifully written, I found One of Us to be more powerful and compelling ... On the whole, Seierstad has written a remarkable book, full of sorrow and compassion. After spending years away from home as a foreign correspondent in Afghanistan, Chechnya and Iraq, bearing witness to the crimes of other nations, she has confronted Norway’s greatest trauma since the Nazi occupation, without flinching and without simplifying.
