Erin Brockovich

The Leonard Lopate Show | May 26, 2011

Environmental and consumer advocate Erin Brockovich talks about her debut novel, Rock Bottom, the first in a series of thrillers. It tells the story of Angela Joy Palladino, who became pregnant at 17 and fled her hometown in West Virginia as a pariah. Years later, she takes a job with a lawyer crusading against mountaintop removal mining, and has to return to that town.

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