The Death and Life of Small Towns in America (translated Documentary)

About This Novel

Overnight, the town and meth became synonymous. The book "The Death and Life of Small Towns in America" ​​takes Oelwein, a small town in Iowa in the central United States, as the main subject. It examines the development of thousands of small towns in the United States in the past 30 years and the efforts of local people to change the status quo. Sweeping by the wave of globalization, these small towns have been forgotten by land consolidation and agricultural industrialization development. The local economy has collapsed, the population has emigrated, and they have been trapped in low income and unemployment during the agricultural transformation. At this time, drugs took advantage of the situation, not only soothing the souls of the poor and helpless, but also forming a local drug economy, and some people began to make a living from it. The prevalence of drugs has, in turn, made the weak town even more riddled with holes. Oelwein, who is addicted to drugs, is just a microcosm of thousands of small towns across the United States. It reflects the social status quo of the vicious cycle of contemporary small towns in the United States under the power of globalization. At almost the same time, the phenomenon of poison towns also appeared in Europe. It is almost futile to make moral judgments on this and call on individuals to abide by the law and be self-disciplined, because the essence of this phenomenon is economic and more related to politics. The author was born in a small town and settled in his hometown for several years to write this book. He observed the production and consumption of drugs, and met small town residents such as doctors who were alcoholics but dedicated to eradicating drugs, prosecutors who handled drug-related crimes, addicts who have struggled with drug addiction for many years... From such people, he observed and presented the death and life of small American towns, and alerted the world.

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