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travisjlund 's review for:
Toms River: A Story of Science and Salvation
by Dan Fagin
An incredible piece of science reporting! Hard to summarize, but incorporates aspects (and even exact content!) from a variety of other great books, including: a gripping epidemiological hunt-for-answers as in [b:The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic - and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World|36086|The Ghost Map The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic - and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World|Steven Johnson|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1430524696s/36086.jpg|1008989], an exploration of cancer as in [b:The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer|7170627|The Emperor of All Maladies A Biography of Cancer|Siddhartha Mukherjee|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1280771091s/7170627.jpg|7580942], a set of personal stories spanning decades as in [b:The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks|6493208|The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks|Rebecca Skloot|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1327878144s/6493208.jpg|6684634], with a dash of chemical-industry skullduggery, a few Greenpeace stunts, several surprisingly fascinating scientific investigations (from mass spectrometry of mystery compounds in the tap water, to "molecular epidemiology" of DNA damage in child cancer patients), and even, in the end, aspects a [a:John Grisham|721|John Grisham|https://d.gr-assets.com/authors/1413390525p2/721.jpg]-esque courtroom thriller.
Well-deserving of both the Pulitzer for General Nonfiction and (even better, in my view!) the National Academies Communication Award.
Well-deserving of both the Pulitzer for General Nonfiction and (even better, in my view!) the National Academies Communication Award.