Jennifer Sherman, author of Dividing Paradise and Those Who Work, Those Who Don’t:
Fitting beautifully into the rural sociological tradition of place-based ethnographies, Who We Are Is Where We Are masterfully illustrates the complexities of maintaining community in the wake of structural change. A must-read for anyone interested in how places become “home,” and why people persist in them despite loss and decline.

Colin Jerolmack, author of Up to Heaven and Down to Hell: Fracking, Freedom, and Community in an American Town:
Who We Are Is Where We Are offers a novel analysis of how the residues of industry continue to structure peoples' ties to places while constraining communities’ capacity to imagine how to reinvent themselves. Through compelling narrative, it poignantly makes the case for the significance of place attachment over and above material conditions in anchoring people in communities.

Rebecca Elliott, author of Underwater: Loss, Flood Insurance, and the Moral Economy of Climate Change in the United States:
Home is an idea surrounded by an atmosphere of sentiment. McMillan Lequieu not only captures it evocatively with her deeply empathic and rigorous research; she also gives us an incisive analytic vocabulary for diagnosing what is at stake as we make and remake home in a changing world. An essential read.