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New York Times Bestseller<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.2.2″ text_font_size=”16px” custom_margin=”||14px|||”]<\/p>\n A quiet seaside town in New Jersey, Toms River became the unlikely setting for a decades-long drama that culminated in 2001 with one of the largest legal settlements in the annals of toxic dumping. A town that would rather have been known for its Little League World Series champions ended up making history for an entirely different reason: a notorious cluster of childhood cancers scientifically linked to local air and water pollution. For years, large chemical companies had been using Toms River as their private dumping ground, burying tens of thousands of leaky drums in open pits and discharging billions of gallons of acid-laced wastewater into the town\u2019s namesake river.<\/span><\/p>\n In an astonishing feat of investigative reporting, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Dan Fagin recounts the sixty-year saga of rampant pollution and inadequate oversight that made Toms River a cautionary example for fast-growing industrial towns from South Jersey to South China. He tells the stories of the pioneering scientists and physicians who first identified pollutants as a cause of cancer, and brings to life the everyday heroes in Toms River who struggled for justice: a young boy whose cherubic smile belied the fast-growing tumors that had decimated his body from birth; a nurse who fought to bring the alarming incidence of childhood cancers to the attention of authorities who didn\u2019t want to listen; and a mother whose love for her stricken child transformed her into a tenacious advocate for change.<\/p>\n A gripping human drama rooted in a centuries-old scientific quest, Toms River<\/em> is a tale of dumpers at midnight and deceptions in broad daylight, of corporate avarice and government neglect, and of a few brave individuals who refused to keep silent until the truth was exposed.<\/p>\n (Published March 2013, Paperback edition published April 2015)<\/em><\/p>\n Read excerpts on\u00a0Longreads<\/a>\u00a0and in Scientific American<\/a>.<\/p>\n Read 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custom_padding=”|||” custom_padding__hover=”|||”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.2.2″ link_text_color=”#7cda24″]<\/p>\n SEJ Rachel Carson Environment Book Award<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.2.2″][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.2.2″][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.2.2″]<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.2.2″ text_font_size=”11px” text_line_height=”1.6em” text_orientation=”justified” custom_css_main_element=”column-count:3;||column-gap:50px;” custom_css_main_element_last_edited=”on|tablet” custom_css_main_element_tablet=”column-count:2;||column-gap:50px;” custom_css_main_element_phone=”column-count:1;”]<\/p>\n \u201cIt’s high time a book did for epidemiology what Jon Krakauer\u2019s best-selling Into Thin Air<\/em> did for mountain climbing: transform a long sequence of painfully plodding steps and missteps into a narrative of such irresistible momentum that the reader not only understands what propels enthusiasts forward, but begins to strain forward as well, racing through the pages to get to the heady views at the end. And such is the power of Dan Fagin\u2019s Toms River<\/em>, surely a new classic of science reporting. Even when the trek to the summit fails to provide the expected Hollywood vistas of sunshine and blue sky, the exhilaration and sense of accomplishment are undiminished. This is, after all, no fairy tale, but a sober story of probability and compromise, laid out with the care and precision that characterizes both good science and great journalism in a territory where both are often reduced to their worst.\u201d\u2014The New York Times<\/em><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cA crisp, hard-nosed probe into corporate arrogance and the power of public resistance makes this environmental caper essential reading.\u201d\u2014Publishers Wee<\/i>k<\/i>ly<\/i><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cThe inexact science that looks for links between cancer and pollution flows through Toms River<\/em>, an absorbing and thoughtful navigation of our era of synthetic chemicals.\u201d\u2014USA Today<\/em><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cA thrilling journey through the twists and turns of cancer epidemiology,\u00a0Toms River<\/i>\u00a0is essential reading for our times. Dan Fagin takes us on a breathtaking tour through a wide terrain of topics\u2014cancer, the environment, carcinogenesis and prevention\u2014yet manages to keep us engaged with deeply personal stories. He handles topics of great complexity with the dexterity of a scholar, the honesty of a journalist, and the dramatic skill of a novelist.\u201d\u2014Siddhartha Mukherjee, M.D., author of the Pulitzer Prize\u2013winning\u00a0The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer<\/i><\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cFagin weaves fascinating background material on epidemiology, statistical analysis and more into this hard-hitting chronicle. A\u00a0gripping environmental thriller.\u201d\u2014Kirkus Reviews<\/a>\u00a0<\/i>(starred)<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cWaterborne destruction has visited Toms River before, albeit via less conspicuous channels, which Dan Fagin traces with marvelous precision in his new book,\u00a0Toms River: A Story of Science and Salvation<\/em>.\u201d\u2014The New Yorker<\/i><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u201cA\u00a0fascinating, carefully\u00a0written description of chemical\u00a0industry malpractices during the\u00a0past five decades and the subsequent actions\u00a0of citizens, authorities, companies, employees,\u00a0and lawyers. . . .\u00a0A balanced book, Toms River <\/i>does not\u00a0push a political agenda, unlike Rachel Carson\u2019s\u00a0Silent Spring<\/i>. But both books offer\u00a0many valuable lessons to those around the\u00a0world who wish to improve environmental\u00a0and occupational health.\u201d\u2014Science<\/em><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cDan Fagin’s narrative of the arrival and explosive growth of a chemical plant in New Jersey in the 1950s weaves a complex tale of powerful industry, local politics, water rights, epidemiology, public health and cancer in a gripping, page-turning environmental thriller. Fiercely reported and accentuated with lessons in both historical science and modern medicine,\u00a0Toms River<\/em>\u00a0is a tale of toxic waste, and the families and communities left in its wake.\u201d\u2014National Public Radio<\/a><\/em> \u201cThis hard-hitting account of cancer epidemiology in the New Jersey town of Toms River is a triumph. Hinging on a prolonged bout of toxic dumping by several companies up until the 1980s, journalist Dan Fagin’s chronicle mixes reportage with science and industrial history.\u201d\u2014<\/em>Nature<\/em><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cFagin\u2019s meticulously researched and compellingly recounted story of Toms River families struggling to find out what was causing the cancers that claimed their children belongs on the shelf with other environmental\/medical mysteries. It\u2019s every bit as important \u2014 and as well-written \u2014 as A Civil Action<\/em> and The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks<\/em>.\u201d\u2014Newark Star-Ledger<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cToms River<\/i>\u00a0is an epic tale for our chemical age. Dan Fagin has combined deep reporting with masterful storytelling to recount an extraordinary battle over cancer and pollution in a New Jersey town. Along the way\u2014as we meet chemists, businessmen, doctors, criminals, and outraged citizens\u2014we see how Toms River is actually a microcosm of a world that has come to depend on chemicals without quite comprehending what they might do to our health.\u201d\u2014Carl Zimmer, author of\u00a0A Planet of Viruses\u00a0<\/i>and\u00a0Parasite Rex<\/i><\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cDeeply and thoroughly researched, it\u2019s a gripping, beautifully told, and thought-provoking account of a human tragedy. It also presents a fine history of a number of science and health-related topics that bear directly on the story that unfolds in the Toms River.\u00a0Fagin is a gifted storyteller.\u201d\u2014Chemical & Engineering News<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u201cFagin’s book may not endear him to Toms River’s real estate agents, but its exhaustive reporting and honest look at the cause, obstacles, and unraveling of a cancerous trail should be required environmental reading.\u201d\u2014Philadelphia Inquirer<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cAt once intimate and objective,\u00a0Toms River<\/i>\u00a0is the heartbreaking account of one town’s struggle with a legacy of toxic pollution. Dan Fagin has written a powerful and important book.\u201d\u2014Elizabeth Kolbert, author of\u00a0Field Notes from a Catastrophe<\/i><\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cToms River<\/i>\u00a0is absolutely riveting. I couldn\u2019t put it down.\u00a0 Dan Fagin has crafted a book about the consequences of industrial pollution that reads like a murder mystery. Read this book and the next time someone complains about too many environmental regulations you\u2019ll have clear answers for why government oversight of industrial waste production and disposal is so important.\u201d\u2014Richard Besser, M.D., chief health and medical editor, ABC News, and former acting director, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cAs Rebecca Skloot\u2019s\u00a0The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks\u00a0<\/i>investigated the tragic impact that unethical scientific pursuits had on a family,\u00a0Toms River<\/i>\u00a0unravels the careless environmental practices that damaged a community. The book . . .\u00a0 features jaw-dropping accounts of senseless waste-disposal practices set against the inspiring saga of the families who stood up to the enormous Toms River chemical plant. The fate of the town, we learn, revolves around the science that cost its residents so much.\u201d\u2014Booklist<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cDespite this book\u2019s emotionally neutral title, Toms River<\/em>\u00a0is at bottom a horror story of unregulated capitalism. . . .\u00a0Author Dan Fagin, a distinguished science reporter, provides meticulously detailed accounts of the rise of the offending chemical industries, the evolution of the science of epidemiology and the struggle of the fiercely devoted parents who hounded politicians and bureaucrats to do their jobs when their natural inclination was to do nothing.\u201d\u2014BookPage<\/em><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cIn an account equal parts sociology, epidemiology, and detective novel, veteran environmental journalist Dan Fagin chronicles the ordeal of this quiet coastal town, which for decades was a dumping ground for chemical manufacturers. Fagin’s compelling book raises broader questions about what communities are willing to sacrifice in the name of economic development.\u201d\u2014Mother Jones<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cTHE book to read if you want to understand why the links between pollution and cancer aren’t as neat and tidy in real life as they are in the movies. Dan Fagin tells the heartbreaking story of a New Jersey town that may or may not have become a hotbed of childhood cancers, which (if there really are more cancers than average) may or may not be linked to a local dye factory. Nuanced, fantastically written, and illuminating.\u201d\u2014Boing Boing<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cInformative, eye-opening, and equally troubling and inspiring; an expertly written example of economics at a\u00a0human cost with a strong vein of science throughout. This book is necessary reading for anyone interested in environmental health and cancer epidemiology.\u201d\u2014The Lancet<\/em><\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cFagin\u2019s book burns into your brain a powerful, painful picture that should not be forgotten. . . .\u00a0I\u2019m rarely a can\u2019t-put-this-down kind of book reader.\u00a0 But I was with this book.\u00a0 The narrative, the history, the epidemiology, the explanation of chemistry\u00a0\u2014\u00a0it was a masterful work of journalism.\u201d\u2014HealthNewsReview<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n \u201c<\/em>In this stellar environmental detective story, the gifted science writer Dan Fagin tells how a toxic disaster befell and \u2014 after decades of political and legal wrangling \u2014 ended in a Jersey Shore town better known for its Little League World Series champions. Toms River<\/em>\u00a0abounds with the sort of cloak-and-dagger exploits more often found in suspense novels: midnight dumping, anonymous tips, criminal sabotage, indifferent government officials, and corrupt executives \u2013 in this case, at Ciba-Geigy, once a major air and water polluter in the area. But the emotional heart of the book lies in its account of the unusual number of children in town who developed cancer, especially leukemia.\u201d\u2014One-Minute Book Reviews<\/em><\/a> \u201cToms River the book is anything but unsatisfying. Fagin weaves \u2014 without a bit of maudlin grandstanding \u2014 strands of chemical invention, corporate behavior, dedicated doctors, nurses and especially citizens, family tragedy, and the invention of epidemiology.\u00a0<\/strong>The result is a stunning achievement: A historical-scientific page turner, all fact, all the time!\u201d\u2014The Why Files<\/a> \u201cThe genius of Toms River <\/i>is that readers pretty much know who did it — but will the perpetrators get caught? And if they do, what are the consequences? The suspense builds as Fagin . . . traverses grand canyons of chemical, medical, and epidemiological scholarship, providing a surprisingly exciting tour through the yawning gap that separates cause from effect. Toms River <\/i>will fill you with outrage: at the blatant abuses of the bad old days, the weak response of government and — worst of all — the knowledge that it could, and most likely will, happen again.\u201d\u2014OnEarth<\/em><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cAn engaging and well-documented expos\u00e9 about chemical contamination and the discovery of a cancer cluster . . . . Toms River<\/em> is a cautionary tale about the Faustian tradeoffs between unfettered economic growth and industrial pollution.\u201d\u2014New Jersey Monthly<\/em><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cIn an age when thorough investigative reporting is becoming increasingly rare, Dan Fagin’s work demonstrates how journalism can bring clarity to the past and also better the present day.\u201d\u2014BookBrowse<\/em><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cProvocative, intelligent and beautifully written, Toms River<\/em> is a cautionary tale that has ramifications for the 21st century global economy, as countries such as China grapple with the costs of explosive industrial growth and rampant pollution. It’s well worth reading.\u201d\u2014Idaho Statesman<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cDan Fagin’s Toms River\u00a0<\/em>is an epic 500-page saga that is almost unbelievable in its scale and scope. It reads like a novel, with character arcs and plot developments and dramatic twists and turns and yes, suspense stretching even into the last few pages. But it’s also a deeply researched investigative piece of journalism on the unconscionable malfeasance of a corporation – and the creepy complicity of a water company and local politicians and civic leaders. . . .\u00a0Richly told,\u00a0Toms River<\/em>\u00a0is a multi-layered barnburner of a now universal tale.\u201d\u2014NUVO News, Indianapolis<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cThe story of every single place that\u2019s been sickened by money and killed by greed, the complete tale of 20th Century environmental calamity told in brilliant microcosm as if it were a LeCarre spy thriller peopled with a cast of Dickensian characters you\u2019d find in a John Irving novel\u2014from shady waste haulers to reluctant-hero parents. . . .\u00a0It is, to coin a phrase, one ripping good yarn. Yet two-time Pulitzer finalist Fagin doesn\u2019t stop there.\u00a0Wrapped in the outrageous story of Toms River are the intertwined histories of cancer and the international chemical industry along with the biography of toxic waste and its terrible toll. Crossing continents and centuries, we travel from the laboratory of medieval medic Paracelsus to Philadelphia cancer wards where Toms River\u2019s murdered children succumb to an epidemic of oncological terror. . . .\u00a0The result is remarkable, a landmark page-turner that\u2019s part science, part history, part comedy, and pure tragedy. It\u2019s also one of the most illuminating, engaging, and deliciously readable books that I\u2019ve encountered in a long while, period.\u201d\u2014Before It’s News<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cThe IEAM Book of the Year. I have never before felt so confident in recommending a book to the readers of this journal. . . .\u00a0What makes this book exceptional is the way the author sucks the reader in with the story while also educating him. . . .\u00a0The book is an compelling as a novel but, as documented in 56 pages of endnotes, it is well researched. Despite decades in this field, I was surprised at how much I learned.\u201d\u2014Integrated Environmental Assessment and Management<\/em><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cThis is a hard-hitting, gutsy book that goes well beyond the obvious. It takes readers behind the scenes and into the minds of those fiercely determined not to let their town\u2019s pollution pass unnoticed, while tackling some cumbersome and often-confusing science. It is a comprehensive, impressive look back at what should never have happened, but also a clarion call for the future as pressure mounts to roll back enforcement of water and air pollution laws.\u201d\u2014SEJournal<\/em><\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cFagin’s reporting lays waste to the one-time conventional wisdom that there’s no such thing as a cancer cluster. in doing so, his incredible book gives life to the stories of Toms River as well as a path to making sure there will one day be fewer stories like theirs to tell.\u201d\u2014\u00a0Bay Journal<\/a><\/i><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n “Fagin’s story is a forensic on how the industries, legally and not so legally, dumped while being disingenuous about it, how public officials fell all over themselves to allow and provide for it because jobs were created, as “fixes” were made that included pumping the waste through a pipe into the Atlantic Ocean offshore near popular beach towns.”\u2014\u00a0Post and Courier<\/a><\/i><\/span>\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201c<\/strong>In the tradition of A Civil Action, The Emperor of All Maladies<\/em> and\u00a0The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks<\/em>, Dan Fagin melds hard-hitting investigative reporting with a fascinating scientific detective story and unforgettable characters. At its core,\u00a0Toms River<\/em> is a meticulous history of the poisoning of a quaint New Jersey town, but it reads like a crime thriller that is impossible to put down.\u201d\u2014Alternatives Journal<\/a><\/em><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\nTOMS RIVER<\/h1>\n
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