The Quiet Zone - by Stephen Kurczy (Hardcover)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p><strong>Captivating. --<em>Kirkus </em> Fascinating, deeply reported, and slightly eerie. --<em>BookPage </em>(Starred Review) <em>The Quiet Zone</em> will live on in your memory. --Bill McKibben</strong></p><p><strong>A stunning portrait of an Appalachian community, the people who call it home, and the enduring human quest for quiet</strong></p><p>Deep in the Appalachian Mountains lies the last truly quiet town in America. Green Bank, West Virginia, is a place at once futuristic and old-fashioned: It's home to the Green Bank Observatory, where astronomers search the depths of the universe using the latest technology, while schoolchildren go without WiFi or iPads. With a ban on all devices emanating radio frequencies that might interfere with the observatory's telescopes, Quiet Zone residents live a life free from constant digital connectivity. But a community that on the surface seems idyllic is a place of contradictions, where the provincial meets the seemingly supernatural and quiet can serve as a cover for something darker.</p><p>Stephen Kurczy embedded in Green Bank, making the residents of this small Appalachian village his neighbors. He shopped at the town's general store, attended church services, went target shooting with a seven-year-old, square-danced with the locals, sampled the local moonshine. In <em>The Quiet Zone, </em>he introduces us to an unforgettable cast of characters. There is a tech buster patrolling the area for illegal radio waves; "electrosensitives" who claim that WiFi is deadly; a sheriff's department with a string of unsolved murder cases dating back decades; a camp of neo-Nazis plotting their resurgence from a nearby mountain hollow. Amongst them all are the ordinary citizens seeking a simpler way of living. Kurczy asks: Is a less connected life desirable? Is it even possible?</p><p><em>The Quiet Zone</em> is a remarkable work of investigative journalism--at once a stirring ode to place, a tautly-wound tale of mystery, and a clarion call to reexamine the role technology plays in our lives.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>An expressionistic new work of nonfiction. Part folk history, part gonzo travelogue, <em>The Quiet Zone</em> colorfully annotates an elaborate contradiction: a last bastion of the disconnected world. ... Kurczy finds high drama and dark secrets in the woods, but he also captures the complex beauty of a disconnected way of life that is dying out at an alarming rate. ... A time capsule of a not-so-distant past, of an approach to life that is rapidly slipping from collective memory.--The Nation<br><br>"Cleareyed and compassionate. ... Surprising and deeply enlightening"--Shawangunk Journal<br><br>Kurczy's deep reporting uncovers... strange things in these hills. ... What makes this book formidable is Kurczy's relentless investigating.--<em>USA Today</em><br><br>The most memorable characters in The Quiet Zone pathetically search for peace in a physical place. Whether it's an escape from social media, electromagnetic waves or people of color, they are never at ease because their torment comes from inside them--the one place they're unwilling to look. ... [Readers] needing a reminder of the simple pleasure of reconnecting with real people in real life will enjoy the journey.--NIR EYAL, <em>New York Times Book Review</em><br><br>[A] fascinating, deeply reported and slightly eerie look at an unusual corner of America. ... With compassion and a journalist's eye [Kurczy] delivers a compelling portrait.--BookPage (Starred Review)<br><br>"Captivating. ... A multilayered illustration of a unique community where things aren't always what they seem."--<em>Kirkus Reviews</em><br><br>Colorful. ... Kurczy succeeds in unlocking many secrets of this insular community.--<em>Publishers Weekly</em><br><br>A quest for our most precious substance--peace and quiet--leaps with exuberant aplomb in to the murk of American kookery--electrosensitives, Nazis, unsolved murders--and reveals that simplicity is far more complicated, far more weird and wonderous, than the self-proclaimed #simplelife.--MARK SUNDEEN, author of <em>The Man Who Quit Money </em>and <em>The Unsettlers</em><br><br>A vividly written book that captures an unusual place with a story-teller's touch, perfectly timed to this moment of confronting our complicated relationships to technology.--ELIZABETH CATTE, author of <em>What You Are Getting Wrong About Appalachia</em><br><br>What a fascinating book! This corner of America is unique for its electromagnetic silence--but once Stephen Kurczy starts looking he finds that it's unique in other ways too. <em>The Quiet Zone </em>will live on in your memory. --BILL MCKIBBEN, author of <em>The End of Nature</em><br>
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