title: Methland: The Death and Life of an American Small Town
author:  Nick Reding 
description: Using what he calls a "live-in reporting strategy," Reding's chronicle of a small-town crystal meth epidemic-about "the death of a way of life as much as... about the birth of a drug"-revolves around tiny Oelwein, Iowa, a 6,000-resident farming town nearly destroyed by the one-two punch of Big Agriculture modernization and skyrocketing meth production. Reding's wide cast of characters includes a family doctor, the man "in the best possible position from which to observe the meth phenomenon"; an addict who blew up his mother's house while cooking the stuff; and Lori Arnold (sister of actor Tom Arnold) who, as a teenager, built an extensive and wildly profitable crank empire in Ottumwa, Iowa (not once, but twice). Reding is at his best relating the bizarre, violent and disturbing stories from four years of research; heftier topics like big business and globalization, although fascinating, seem just out of Reding's weight class. A fascinating read for those with the stomach for it, Reding's unflinching look at a drug's rampage through the heartland stands out in an increasingly crowded field. <br />Copyright  Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
zlib_text: **Contents**
  
    
  
  Title Page
  
  Moving
  
  Exhausted
  
  Traveling
  
  Community
  
  Unexpecting
  
  Home
  
  Disagree
  
  Dinner
  
  Ceremony
  
  Decisions
  
  Family
  
  Arguing
  
  Phone
  
  Learning
  
  School
  
  News
  
  Crushed
  
  Lunch
  
  Waiting
  
  Locked
  
  Visions
  
  Surprise
  
  Discussion
  
  Revenge
  
  Fretting
  
  Undoing
  
  Done
  
  Anger
  
  Impatience
  
  Mall
  
  Telling
  
  Worried
  
  Fire
  
  Running
  
  Reality
  
  Dark
  
  Over
  
  Other books
  
  Author's Note
  
    
  
  HELD
  
  GONE - BOOK TWO
  
  by Stacy Claflin
  
  [http://www.stacyclaflin.com](http://stacyclaflin.com)
  
    
  
  Copyright ©2014 Stacy Claflin. All rights reserved.
  
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  The author has taken great liberties with locales including the creation of
  fictional towns.
  
    
  
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