![]() ![]() “The younger kids mostly had no idea.” Those with brain or bone cancers faced long odds. “The teenagers had a grasp of death, and what the diagnosis meant,” Boornazian said. The older children, though, were much more difficult to deal with. The ward was a surprisingly lively place, where little kids dashed down the wide hallways with their wheeled intravenous stands clattering beside them. I saw plenty of nurses who came to work at the unit and it wasn’t what they expected. Back then she was Lisa Davenport, and not much older than some of her patients. The following year she found a home in the cancer ward at CHOP. She began working at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia in 1991, during the summer of her senior year of nursing school at Villanova University. It is no small challenge to spend long days and longer nights in a place where children die, but Lisa Boornazian had the knack. According to the Pulitzer committee, Fagin’s book, which chronicles the effects of chemical waste dumping on a small New Jersey community, “deftly combines investigative reporting and historical research to probe a New Jersey seashore town’s cluster of childhood cancers linked to water and air pollution.” Thank you to Fagin and Bantam Books for allowing us to reprint the excerpt below. ![]() This year’s Pulitzer Prize in General Nonfiction was awarded yesterday to Dan Fagin, an NYU science journalism professor, for Toms River: A Story of Science and Salvation. Dan Fagin | Toms River: A Story of Science and Salvation | 2013 | 9 minutes (2,153 words) ![]()
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