![]() ![]() ![]() Schlichtmann is an obsessive, odd figure. She and the other families with sick children enlist the services of a lawyer named Jan Schlichtmann, who puts together the lawsuit that will try the two corporations for poisoning the groundwater that would spread hazardous chemicals into the water supply that led to the Woburn neighborhood in question. The cases all occur within a relatively small neighborhood, an uncanny coincidence that leads Anne to seek legal representation. Approximately the first quarter of the book presents the backstory of the Andersons and several other Woburn families whose children are stricken with leukemia. Jimmy’s condition rapidly deteriorates, however, and soon he is diagnosed with leukemia. His mother, Anne Anderson, believes it is just a cold. When the book begins, a young boy named Jimmy Anderson gets sick. ![]()
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