Beth Macy, author of the widely acclaimed Dopesick, which tells the story of the pharmaceutical’s role in the opioid crisis, now brings us a searing memoir detailing her very personal story of how the hollowing out of America’s heartland has devastated her hometown and wreaked havoc with her family. Taking its title, Paper Girl, from her job delivering newspapers as she grew up with little money in Urbana, Ohio, the book goes far beyond previous attempts by others to capture what has gone wrong in day to day life in middle America. A renowned journalist and now candidate for Congress, Macy makes readers feel what others have merely described. Don’t miss it.