AMERICAN LIVES – NONFICTION

ALICE DRIVER’s Life and Death of the American Worker: The Immigrants Taking on America’s Largest Meatpacking Company is an expose of toxic labor practices at a chicken processing plant in Arkansas. After gaining the trust of immigrant essential workers who survived a deadly chemical accident, Driver documents their courage as they fight back against the behemoth Tyson Foods. BENJAMIN HEROLD’s Disillusioned: Five Families and the Unraveling of America’s Suburbs explores stories that include a middle-class Black family battling a school that’s determined to punish their teenage son and undocumented Hispanic parents with a gifted son in a remarkable elementary school. RAY SUAREZ’s We Are Home: Becoming American in the 21st Century: An Oral History is a reported portrait, in their own voices, of the newest Americans living across the country. Like their predecessors, they face obstacles, including political hatred. Like their predecessors, they work hard, persist, and become one of us.

Buy Life and Death of the American Worker: The Immigrants Taking on America’s Largest Meatpacking Company – Driver

Buy Disillusioned: Five Families and the Unraveling of America’s Suburbs – Herold

Buy We Are Home: Becoming American in the 21st Century: An Oral History – Suarez