Corban Addison on WASTELANDS: THE TRUE STORY OF FARM COUNTRY ON TRIAL
\u201cIt was the people really, that convinced me that this was a story not just worth telling, but needed to be told, and needed to be told the right way, in a way that would actually be fun to read and engaging, that would reach broader than an academic audience that would reach deep into the community and say, you know, this is a story about ordinary people trying to get justice in a time and place in America where it's pretty hard to do that\u2026\u201d
Wastelands: The True Story of Farm Country on Trial\xa0is the true story of an epic battle of power and justice, good and evil, with heroes to remind us that there is virtue in the world. Corban Addison joins us on the show to talk about his nonfiction legal thriller\u2014a book John Grisham says he wished he'd written\u2014centered on the Black and brown residents of eastern North Carolina, two million hogs and the men who run the big business of pork, along with the ways story connects and empowers communities, the hours of personal interviews and research that informed his writing, what next for him, and much more with Poured Over\u2019s host, Miwa Messer.
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