6:00 PM Reception | 7:00 PM Author Remarks | 7:45 PM Panel Discussion Book signing after discussion
"Wastelands does not shy away from the corrupt nature of the near-monopoly Smithfield (now owned by the massive Chinese company, WH Group), has on pork and the harm it perpetuates for every citizen in hog country. The book breaks down the history of Smithfield and the men who started it. But Addison also digs deeply into the contaminated soil of systemic and well-funded legislative advantage that Smithfield and the hog farmers have enjoyed in the halls of the state capital in Raleigh." - Maggie Dees, Rachel Carson Council Stanback Presidential Fellow
Wastelands is available for purchase at the Catawba College Bookstore on campus or at South Main Book Company (110 S Main St, Salisbury, NC 28144; 704-630-9788). South Main Book Company will be at the reception selling a limited number of books.
Please RSVP by September 12, 2022.
By calling 704.637.4394 or by emailing rsvp@catawba.edu.
About the Authors:
Corban Addison is the internationally best-selling author of four novels, A Walk Across the Sun, The Garden of Burning Sand, The Tears of Dark Water (winner of the inaugural Wilbur Smith Adventure Writing Prize), and A Harvest of Thorns, all of which address some of today’s most pressing human rights issues. Wastelands is his first work of non-fiction. An attorney, activist, and world traveler, he lives with his wife and children in Virginia.
John Hart is the author of six New York Times bestsellers, most recently The Hush. The only author in history to win the Edgar Award for Best Novel consecutively, John has also won the Barry Award, the SIBA Award for Fiction, the Ian Fleming Steel Dagger Award, and the North Carolina Award for Literature. His novels have been translated into thirty languages and can be found in more than seventy countries.
