“Across central Ohio, long home to farms integral to the American food system, fields of crops now vie for space with sprawling, electricity-hungry data centers. Here, investigative journalist and central Ohio native Mya Frazier offers a travelogue of sorts, in which she paints a vivid picture of middle America’s changing landscape, exposing as she goes many of the shadowy political and economic forces that ultimately undermine climate action. With bracing narrative style and prose that judges ‘gushed over,’ Frazier transports readers into her story’s scenes and effectively conveys the grim stakes of all this transformation for local communities and the planet alike. ‘Powerful, personal, and uniquely visceral, this was a cut above,’ judges said.”