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Everyone knows Collin Griffen is a quiet, hard working young man who just wants to give his son the childhood he himself never had. But when he violently murders his two-year-old son, his family is left shocked and searching for answers. After unearthing the truth about Collin's employer, Monarch Industries slaughterhouse, attorney Cam Burton prepares to make an unprecedented defense challenging one of America's most loved institutions, the meat industry. To save his client from the death penalty, Cam has to make a compelling case that standard operating procedure is not only inhumane and dangerous for the animals involved, but is also destroying the lives of people employed by powerful corporations that view humans and animals as fresh meat. Set amidst the tense summer of 2016 in a fictional small town in North Carolina, Quiet Man serves up a tale simmering with uncomfortable truths. Quiet Man was a Finalist for the Siskiyou Prize in Environmental Literature.

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In the vein of Upton Sinclair's 'The Jungle' and Daniel Quinn's 'Ishmael, ' 'Quiet Man' insists on our witnessing the cost of eating meat while maintaining the horror of slaughter at arm's length, and the terrible price somebody somewhere eventually has to pay. Linda Lowen, New York Times essayist, writing instructor, Publishers Weekly nonfiction book reviewer A devastating expose of the meatpacking industry..., (Quiet Man) centers on the work of a giant corporation, Monarch Industries, that not only slaughters vast numbers of pigs with the utmost brutality, but routinely injures and dehumanizes its workers. Quiet Man provides an exceptionally well-written, powerful indictment of corporate greed and its devastating consequences. Lawrence Wittner, author of Confronting the Bomb Quiet Man by Angela Kaufman is a book that grabs you by the throat and doesn't let go. A well-told story that explores the life and tragic death of the men and women whose lives have been destroyed by factory farming and the subsequent dehumanization of workers and mistreatment of animals. Colleen Geraghty The page-turning is increased by gripping trial scenes as we sit with the jury to learn the verdict: Will Collin Griffin be sent on to rehabilitation care or will he be found guilty and be executed? Ginnah Howard, author of Night Navigation, a New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice

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