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America in the Time of Fentanyl and Meth: Sam Quinones’s Chronicle of a Crisis

Saturday, May 7 | 2:30 PM - 3:30 PM
  • In-Person Only

Veterans Memorial Building - Auditorium

  • 2022
  • Current Affairs
  • Health, Psychology & Spirituality

    Fentanyl and meth: they cut a devastating swath through our communities, claiming record numbers of lives and exacerbating our country’s worst humanitarian crises, from homelessness to severe mental illness. Journalist Sam Quinones, who unforgettably covered America’s opioid epidemic with the National Book Critics Circle Award-winning Dreamland, turns his prescient gaze to the followup crisis he saw coming: the mass production of deeply dangerous synthetic drugs. The Least of Us: True Tales of America and Hope in the Time of Fentanyl and Meth is as much about our humblest, most vulnerable communities as it is about the drug trade that ravages them. Hear directly from Quinones as he shares what is ultimately a message of hope: “In a time when drug traffickers act like corporations and corporations like traffickers, our best defense, perhaps our only defense, lies in bolstering community.”

    The bookstore partner for this session is Sausalito Books By The Bay! Buy the books online at Bookshop.org or purchase them in person at the Festival. More information here.

    Book signing information: Sausalito Books by the Bay Tent at the Bookstore Blv (corner of Allston & Milvia in the Outdoor Fair) at in the park, 3:45 PM

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