A Civil Motion by Jonathan Harr
A story nonfiction account of an actual case.
There are a variety of books I like (Simply Mercy, A Knock at Midnight, Livid Hours) that I might have used, however I assumed I’d go together with one thing I’ve by no means talked about earlier than, whereas additionally going deep backlist since L.A. Legislation is an ’80s present.
That is really going to sound like I’m telling you the plot for Erin Brockovich—which is predicated on an actual lady and case—however this predates that case. Throughout the mid-’70s in Woburn, Massachusetts, a dozen kids had been identified with leukemia. A Civil Motion follows the lawsuit the households filed by means of personal-injury lawyer Jan Schlichtmann—who sued two big companies for poisoning the water—with a deal with Schlichtmann and the way the case nearly destroyed him. The ebook additionally has a 1998 adaptation with a variety of recognizable actors: John Travolta, Robert Duvall, James Gandolfini, Dan Hedaya, John Lithgow, William H. Macy, Kathleen Quinlan, and Tony Shalhoub.