![]() (She won numerous awards for her work during her more than two decades with the Roanoke Times in Virginia.) She does the same sort of big-picture reporting in Dopesick, which features a blistering account of the fraudulent marketing of Ox圜ontin by Purdue Pharma.īut when Macy talks about accompanying a woman to the funeral of her drug-addicted daughter, dead just days before her 29th birthday, the writer’s expressive face twists with distress, and her voice cracks with the empathy of a fellow parent. When Macy wrote about the disastrous effects of globalization on the American furniture industry in Factory Man (2014) and about the poisonous racism of the Jim Crow South in Truevine (2016), her prose had the punch of that of a veteran journalist who knows how to lay out economic, political, and social issues. “I really do appreciate everybody who’s been kind to my other books.” Seated in her publisher’s offices, Macy’s warmth is apparent as she leaps up to greet a Little, Brown staffer with a hug and hand off a stack of handwritten notes to booksellers and reviewers to accompany the hot-off-the-press galleys. ![]() ![]() It’s easy to see how Beth Macy got people to share the heartbreaking personal stories found in her new book, Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company That Addicted America, to be released in August by Little, Brown. ![]()
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