Amity and Prosperity: One Family and the Fracturing of America

Griswold tells the story of fracking's human costs through one family, making a sprawling national issue intimate and undeniable. The book follows how promises of wealth and stability fracture into illness, legal battles, and mistrust. Griswold's reporting is immersive and patient, attentive to the slow grind of bureaucracy and litigation. She shows how power operates through contracts, technical language, and exhaustion. The narrative is tense in a quiet way—danger arrives not as spectacle but as accumulation. Griswold also captures the complexity of communities divided by jobs, loyalty, and fear. The book refuses easy villains; instead, it maps a system where responsibility is dispersed and accountability is hard to pin down. The prose is clear and compassionate, giving space to uncertainty and grief. Reading it, you feel how environmental harm becomes social harm, and how both linger. It's a book that changes how "energy" sounds as a word. Urgent, humane, and deeply unsettling.