Valley So Low: One Lawyer's Fight for Justice in the Wake of America's Great Coal Catastrophe

WINNER OF THE TENNESSEE BOOK AWARD FOR NONFICTION • A NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • A riveting courtroom drama about the victims of one of the largest environmental disasters in U.S. history—and the country lawyer determined to challenge the notion that, in America, justice can be bought

“[A] tense investigative chronicle.” —The New Yorker

For more than fifty years, a power plant in the small town of Kingston, Tennessee, burned fourteen thousand tons of coal a day, gradually creating a...