Love Canal: My Story

by Lois Marie Gibbs, Lois Marie Giggs

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction by Murray Levine

1. The Problem at Love Canal

2. The Swale Theory

3. The Killing Ground

4. The Motel People

5. Still Studying the Problem

Genres: Environment, Nonfiction

Hardcover

First published February 1, 1982

Reviews

[Michael Mingo · Rating 3 out of 5]

Gibbs's prose style (as told to Murray Levine) is certainly fatiguing: short, very expository sentences, an abundance of exclamations, etc. But it captures the feeling, the overwhelming exhaustion, of dealing with a government that ignores or dismisses citizen complaints. If it takes years of letters, meetings, protests, and (in one memorable episode) hostage-taking to get people out of Love Canal, what does that say about the rest of our societal ills?

[Jennifer Nagy · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great work! I went to high school with her son when this book originally came out.

There was a lot to learn. It is scary how these things happen.