Status
Available
Collection
Publication
Random House (2020), 288 pages
Description
Oak Flat tells the story of a race-against-time struggle for a swath of American land, which pits one of the poorest communities in the United States against the federal government and two of the world's largest mining conglomerates. The book follows the fortunes of two families with profound connections to the contested site: the Nosies, an Apache family whose teenage daughter is an activist and leader in the Oak Flat fight, and the Gorhams, a mining family whose patriarch was a sheriff in the lawless early days of Arizona statehood.
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LibraryThing member villemezbrown
The flat and dull text is kept from sinking this book by throwing in lots of illustrations by the author. But the art isn't that great either.
I support the cause of preserving Oak Flat for the Apache who hold it sacred against a destructive copper mining project planned for the area, but the
This isn't history. This is happening right now. Without taking a stand and offering an action plan, the whole thing becomes a big shrug: "Aah, so sad. Now what will my next book be about?"
I support the cause of preserving Oak Flat for the Apache who hold it sacred against a destructive copper mining project planned for the area, but the
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narrative meanders around so much and noodles about in digressions, I'm not sure there is a persuasive point made nearly as effectively as the subtitle. And its one of those books that wants to draw attention to an issue, throwing in opposing viewpoints and tons of quotes from people effected, but the author never definitively comes out and says this sucks, let's oppose it and let's do these things to stop this crap.This isn't history. This is happening right now. Without taking a stand and offering an action plan, the whole thing becomes a big shrug: "Aah, so sad. Now what will my next book be about?"
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Awards
Notable Books List (Nonfiction — 2021)
Language
Original language
English