RaveCleveland Review of BooksThose who think they know what they talk about when they talk about fracking have a lot to learn from Griswold’s painstaking and compassionate research ... Griswold forces her reader to confront a set of heartbreaking, systemic failures, starting with the failure of the American justice system ... If there are faults to this book, they result less from errors on Griswold’s part than bureaucratic malfeasance: much of the information that Griswold needed in order to tell this story remains shielded by intellectual property law or sealed off at the behest of court settlements ... Griswold’s book does more than offer an investigative account of fracking in rural Appalachia; it shows how this region, once a hotbed of union organizing and liberal politics, suddenly ran red. It answers the questions that eluded so many journalists ... One of Griswold’s more significant achievements lies in her having successfully made fracking a topic of conversation again, long after the word itself had become a regular and, perhaps, all-too-comfortable part of everyone’s vocabulary.
