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O'Brien's (Fly Girls) meticulously researched and gripping history of the massive environmental disaster at Love Canal draws readers into the unrest, anxiety, and bewilderment of everyday people discovering their beloved neighborhood is poisoned and deadly. In 1977, residents of a modest blue-collar neighborhood near Niagara Falls, NY, discovered that they were living atop a canal filled with toxic waste (dumped by Hooker Chemical Company 30 years earlier), which was now leaching to the surface and making them sick. O'Brien spotlights two of the residents whose determination an...Log In or Sign Up to Read More