Please join the Maine Writers & Publishers Alliance, Milestone Recovery, and PRINT: A Bookstore at Congress Square Park for a conversation with award-winning nonfiction writer Patrick Radden Keefe about his latest book, Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty. Keefe will be joined in conversation by award-winning journalist, science writer, and Portland resident Kathryn Miles.

In writing about the best books so far in 2021, Time Magazine describes Empire of Pain this way: “An engrossing and deeply reported book about the Sackler family, the owners of Purdue Pharma. Their company created Oxycontin, the opioid introduced in the mid-90s that sent a wave of addiction and death across the country. Unlike previous books on the epidemic, Empire of Pain is focused on the wildly rich, ambitious and cutthroat family that built its empire first on medical advertising and later on painkillers. In [Keefe’s] hands, their story becomes a great American morality tale about unvarnished greed dressed in ostentatious philanthropy.” PRINT: A Bookstore will be selling copies of Empire of Pain at the event or you can order a copy here.

This event is free and in person.