Marie's Tree: Implosions and Injustice in San Francisco (PB) (2026)

Marie Harrison (1948-2019), an environmental activist of San Francisco's Bayview Hunters Point, spent her life fighting for basic services such as housing, energy, and employment that had become money makers for a few but a dream deferred for her community. What she endured--the brown water that ran out of her taps at Geneva Towers; the blood that ran from her grandson's nose while living next door to the PG&E smokestacks; and the fear of radiation poisoning from one of the country's worst superfund cleanup sites-- are environmental injustices citizens of the United States suffer every day. Despite these injustices and implosions, Marie's Tree is an uplifting example of how one community held powerful interests accountable.