FULL BODY BURDEN: Growing Up in the Shadow of a Secret Nuclear Facility

by Kristen Iversen

ISBN: 9780099571858
Format: small paperback
Published: Vintage Books 2013
Pages: 400
SKU: A5/2004/U142

ABOUT
A haunting work of narrative nonfiction about a young woman, Kristen Iversen, growing up in a small Colorado town close to Rocky Flats, a secret nuclear weapons plant once designated "the most contaminated site in America." It's the story of a childhood and adolescence in the shadow of the Cold War, in a landscape at once startlingly beautiful and--unknown to those who lived there--tainted with invisible yet deadly particles of plutonium.

Based on extensive interviews, FBI and EPA documents, and class-action testimony, this taut, beautifully written book promises to have a very long half-life.

CONDITION
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