Join author Kerri Arsenault for a discussion of her book Mill Town: Reckoning with What Remains.

About the Author: Kerri Arsenault grew up in the rural working class town of Mexico, Maine. For over 100 years the community orbited around a paper mill that employs most townspeople, including three generations of Arsenault’s own family. Years after she moved away, Arsenault realized the price she paid for her seemingly secure childhood. The mill, while providing livelihoods for nearly everyone, also contributed to the destruction of the environment and the decline of the town’s economic, physical, and emotional health in a slow-moving catastrophe, earning the area the nickname “Cancer Valley.” Arsenault is a book critic, a book editor at Orion magazine, and contributing editor at The Literary Hub. Her work has appeared in Freeman’s, the Boston Globe, Down East, the Paris Review Daily, the New York Review of Books, Air Mail, and the Washington Post.

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This event is presented in collaboration with Wilmington Memorial Library and Tewksbury Public Library and is co-sponsored by the Friends of the Flint Memorial Library.