Safe Water (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798182028806)

Kate Mercer has spent twenty-two years as a night-shift nurse in an Ohio hospital, doing the invisible work that keeps people alive. She is good at it. She is also, at forty-seven, living a life that fits her the way clothes fit when you've worn them too long - not perfectly, but you've stopped noticing.

When she begins to see a pattern - seven patients, all from the same east side neighborhood, all with unexplained kidney failure - she does what nurses do: she keeps records. What those records lead her to is larger than she expected, and what the institution does with her findings is exactly what she should have expected.

Safe Water is the story of a woman who notices what no one else is willing to notice, and what it costs her - and what it gives her - to keep going anyway.