Prize-winning journalist Dan Fagin tells the story of a small New Jersey town used as a dumping ground by chemical companies for years, a process of environmental exploitation that led to a devastating cluster of childhood cancers.

A young man from Toms River, New Jersey suffering from a series of tumors knew he needed to survive his illness for one good reason: to expose the decision-makers who had ruined his health.

Dan Fagin is an environmental science journalist and professor at New York University.

Toms River won the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for non-fiction and is widely recognized as a sensational and expertly-researched attack on the American pollution crisis.

Toms River examines the impact of industrial exploitation of the natural landscape and the danger and toxicity that follow unregulated economic booms.

The book explores the bravery of a few individuals who refused to stay silent while their homes were being polluted for the benefit of the powerful.