Homesick

Nicholas Shapiro is Assistant Professor at the Institute for Society and Genetics at the University of California, Los Angeles.

"Homesick skillfully combines investigative journalism and ethnography in charismatic detail to demonstrate the complex and interlocking structural systems that enable large-scale toxic exposure. Nicholas Shapiro's evocative writing and commitment to research captures allows those most burdened by the chemical impacts of power to tell their own expert stories of life, survival, and death. This book is a timely, stellar example of what happens to both research and the researcher when the author lets the case lead them where they need to go. Homesick is a book to contend with." - Max Liboiron, author of Pollution is Colonialism "Beautifully crafted and deeply engaging, Homesick is a stunning ethnography of the expansive predicament that was formed alongside the hope of building affordable mobile homes with ingredients now known to be chemically toxic. Nicholas Shapiro brings readers into the multiple sites of illness, fretting, maneuvering, and optimism to offer a riveting account of the nested domains of formaldehyde toxicity in manufactured mobile homes and that make those who live in them, and the homes themselves, sick." - Vincanne Adams, author of Glyphosate and the Swirl: An Agrochemical Chemical on the Move