Waste: One Woman’s Fight Against America’s Dirty Secret (The Studs and Ida Terkel Award)

The book "Waste" by Catherine Coleman Flowers is a powerful and moving memoir that sheds light on the systemic class, racial, and geographic prejudice that foster Third World conditions in America.

Flowers, a MacArthur grant-winning environmental justice activist, shares her personal journey from country girl to student civil rights organizer to environmental justice champion at Bryan Stevenson's Equal Justice Initiative.

Through her story, she reveals how sanitation is becoming too big a problem to ignore as climate change brings sewage to more backyards - not only those of poor minorities.

This book is an inspiring account of the evolution of an activist and a call to action to ensure human dignity through a right most Americans take for granted: basic sanitation.

Don't miss out on this powerful and thought-provoking read!