Stolen Fields: A Story of Eminent Domain and the Death of the American Dream

Boggio weaves the riveting story of growing up as a descendant of the last holdouts, the strong-willed and colorful Cole family, whose historic loss of their prosperous farm on Neville Island in Pittsburgh through eminent domain at the time of WWI has shadowed the lives of her mother's generation, as well as her own. The island was known as the market basket of Pittsburgh, and the farms there grew the best asparagus on the East Coast. The loss of the Cole farm grew other things as well: hatred, bitterness, greed, ambition and aberrant lust. In STOLEN FIELDS: A Story of Eminent Domain and the Death of the American Dream, Boggio tells the story of the past, but dwells on the journey toward, and triumph of, the future.