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John Grisham’s Best Selling New Novel Features Mountaintop Removal
Saturday, November 22nd, 2014
John Grisham is world famous for his best-selling legal thrillers. He must have been inspired by some of the powerful attorneys fighting mountaintop removal for his new novel, “Gray Mountain.” The book is set in Southwest Virginia, not far from our friends at Southern Appalachian Mountain Stewards.
This novel is getting good reviews and will bring the issue of mountaintop removal mining to new audiences around the country and the world. As part of the book promotion, Grisham is sharing some of the facts about MTR with his 1.5 million Facebook fans if you’d like to follow along. The novel is currently at the top of the best-sellers list. We’re excited to welcome any new people who found this website or learned about the issue of mountaintop removal after reading his book!
If you’ve read the book, let us know what you think!
January 22nd, 2015 at 2:00 pm
Fabulous book! Educational as well as riveting. You can see what an uphill battle we have in this country fighting against corporate profits at any cost! People who push mountaintop removal have no soul and no eye for beauty.