Release Date: April 22, 2027
About The Book:
ERICA BROWN, a 59-year-old Deputy Director of the EPA, has a near-obsessive devotion to nature and the environment. It began when she watched Vasgar Coal strip mine a mountain into rubble near her grandparents’ home in Eastern Kentucky. When she discovers a corrupt approval signed by her closest colleague (to allow a mountaintop-removal mine by Vasgar), she reports him. The director immediately reassigns her to a primitive wastewater facility in small-town Louisiana. Now she must find a new way to fight for the environment and combat EPA corruption.
About The Author:
John Emerson Young is the author of the novels Erica Brown’s War, Getting Huge (Finalist for the Chanticleer International Book Awards in humor), When the Coin is in the Air, and Fire in the Field & Other Stories. An alumnus of Indiana University, he earned an MFA from Emerson College. Young lives in Cincinnati, Ohio. https://johnemersonyoung.com/
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Book Blurbs:
Erica Brown’s War really is a story for our times—with a plot that feels as if it were ripped from tomorrow’s headlines. Readers will love Erica Brown’s fervor. She’s a fighter. We need more of those, including fictional ones. Changing culture starts with changing stories…”–Elaine Olund, environmental writer and poet
“Provocative and deeply human, Young has taken on an enormously ambitious and urgent subject that asks whether a righteous cause can survive unjust means.”–Judith Turner-Yamamoto, author of Loving the Dead and Gone
“Erica Brown’s War is a gripping story that had me breathless and involved from beginning to end. It’s an important book with wonderful characters.”–Patrica Averbach, author of Dreams of Drowning and Resurrecting Rain
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