If you have but a single new book to read, let this be the one. Its personalities, depth, and driving, detective-story-like narrative are as gripping as anything in recent memory. The history (and mysteries) of chemistry and epidemiology are unpacked in an artful series of flashbacks, interwoven with the horrors of residents of a small, postcard-perfect town in southern New Jersey awakening to birth defects and the early deaths of their children. No one knows what is happening. Most of the town does not want to know (bad for real estate values). And even those who do have little means of finding out.
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