Dinner Disrupted WASTELANDS: The True Story of Farm Country on Trial

20 Jesup Road,Westport 06880

14 June, 2022

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Author & activist Corban Addison talks about saving farmland in his book WASTELANDS. Corban Addison comes to Westport to discuss his new nonfiction book, Wastelands, with Sustainable Westport's Johanna Martell. As vivid and fast-paced as a thriller, Wastelands takes us into the heart of a legal battle over the future of America’s farmland and into the lives of the people who found the courage to fight. With journalistic rigor and a novelist’s instinct for story, Corban Addison's Wastelands captures the inspiring struggle to bring a modern-day monopoly to its knees, to force a once-invincible corporation to change, and to preserve the rights—and restore the heritage—of a long-suffering community. "Beautifully written, impeccably researched, and told with the air of suspense that few writers can handle, Wastelands is a story I wish I had written." —From the Foreword by John Grisham Please register to attend in person and/or pre-order a book. Register here to watch from home on Zoom. Books pre-ordered will be available for pick up at the Westport Library after the event. Corban Addison is the internationally best-selling author of four novels, A Walk Across the Sun, The Garden of Burning Sand, The Tears of Dark Water (winner of the inaugural Wilbur Smith Adventure Writing Prize), and A Harvest of Thorns, all of which address some of today’s most pressing human rights issues. He is also an attorney, activist, and world traveler. The Dinner Disrupted series is a partnership of libraries in Fairfield and New Haven County, Connecticut, encouraging patrons to play a more active role in their food system by engaging in collective discussions and actions focusing on Food Security, Climate Change, Land Use, & Agriculture.