The Dark Side of Hunger Mountain

T. H. Platt is one of the most knowledgeable people about the catastrophe wrought in rural regions all over the world. Everyone in the fight knows her. She put in time as director of The National Center for Public Policy Research’s Environment and Enterprise Institute and her family were fishers on the West Coast. She knows where every body is buried, in that hackneyed phrase, and she has written a novel which painlessly describes what has been going on.

August used to be a time to read novels, ...