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"A chilling indictment of how government and big business prized profits over health, and a moving tale of one woman's struggle to understand why."
—People

"A fast-moving, urgent narrative that catalogues the evidence of the many different forms of pollution and the likelihood that they contributed to the [sisters'] cancers, documenting the choices and treatment [the author] must face as a cancer patient"
—Publishers Weekly

"I read this book like a desert hiker drinks water—in great, thankful gulps. It's a scientific investigation of the most intimate sort. It's a family memoir with public policy implications. 'Stories matter,' says Nancy Nichols. And then she proves it."
—Sandra Steingraber, biologist and author of Living Downstream: An Ecologist Looks at Cancer and the Environment

"A stunning, haunting, exquisite memoir. As a scientist, I'm dumbstruck. As a human being, I'm appalled."
—Devra Davis, Director, Center for Environmental Oncology, University of Pittsburgh and author of The Secret History of the War on Cancer