Paper Girl

Beth Macy grew up delivering the newspaper in her hometown, and, as an adult, became a journalist who wrote the news. Despite having many challenges as a young person, she benefited from living in a stable, vital community, with people of a variety of different income levels living in proximity to each other.

Years later, she went back to her hometown of Urbana, Ohio to find that it had deteriorated in certain ways. Her analysis of the situation is discouraging but she does find reason for hope.
All in all she gives an eye opening view of the current state of small cities in the U.S. This book is well worth reading.