Event to include a pre-event reception and book signing.

 

First 100 registered attendees will receive a free copy of Beth Macy’s New York Times bestseller, Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America (paperback, 2019) at the event.

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Named one of the “top five books of 2018” by Janet Maslin of the New York Times, Dopesick is the first book to fully chronicle the widespread impact of the opioid crisis over the course of 20 years, from the mining communities of Appalachia to cities, suburbs and rural communities throughout America.

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As a reporter for the Roanoke Times in the Appalachian region of western Virginia, Macy has spent three decades reporting on the region, focusing on social and economic trends and how they affect ordinary people — she says this area is the birthplace of the modern opioid epidemic.

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Macy is the author of two previous bestsellers: Factory Man: How One Furniture Maker Battled Offshoring, Stayed Local — and Helped Save an American Town (2014), currently in development for an HBO miniseries produced by Tom Hanks, and Truevine: Two Brothers, a Kidnapping, and a Mother’s Quest: A True Story of the Jim Crow South (2016).