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Join a special conversation between award-winning journalist Shoshana Walter and bestselling and award-winning author Barbara Kingsolver as they chat about Walter’s book "Rehab: An American Scandal".
In Rehab: An American Scandal, Shoshana Walter, a Pulitzer finalist, exposes the country’s failed response to the opioid crisis and the malfeasance, corruption, and snake oil that blight the drug rehabilitation industry. Today, more people have access to treatment than ever before. So why isn’t it working? The answer is that in America, where anyone can get addicted, only certain people get a real chance to recover.
About the Authors: Shoshana Walter is a reporter for the Marshall Project covering the criminal justice system. Her reporting has been honored as a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and Selden Ring, and she has won the Knight Award for Public Service, the Edward R. Murrow Award, and the Livingston Award for Young Journalists.
Barbara Ellen Kingsolver is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American novelist, essayist, and poet. She was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for the novel Demon Copperhead in 2023.
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