Heat and Light - Larger Print Author:Jennifer Haigh Forty years ago, Bakerton coal fueled the country. Then the mines closed, and the town wore away like a bar of soap. Now Bakerton has been granted a surprise third act: it sits squarely atop the Marcellus Shale, a massive deposit of natural gas. — To drill or not to drill? Prison guard Rich Devlin leases his mineral rights to finance his dream of... more » farming. Meanwhile his neighbors, organic dairy farmers Mack and Rena, hold out against the drilling -- until a passionate environmental activist disrupts their lives.
Told through a cast of characters whose lives are increasingly bound by the opposing interests that underpin the national debate, Heat and Light is a dispatch from a forgotten America -- a work of searing moral clarity from one of the finest writers of her generation, a courageous and necessary book.
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