It is the early 1950s. Kristen Iversen is enjoying a carefree childhood surrounded by desert and mountains. But just a few miles down the road, the US government decides to build a secret nuclear weapons facility at Rocky Flats. Kirsten and her siblings jump streams, ride horses, live a happy outdoors life. But beneath this veneer her family is quietly falling apart. Her father drinks, her mother copes. And in a series of fires, accidents and other catastrophic leaks, Rocky Flats nuclear plant is spewing an invisible cocktail of the most dangerous substances on earth into this pristine landscape. The ground, the air and the water are all alive with radiation.The years that follow will bring protests, investigations, denials, cover-ups, threats and lies. And then, one after another, people start to fall ill.
Vorwort
This is a book about secrets: family secrets and government secrets. An incredible memoir and exposé about growing up next to America's most important nuclear facility of the Cold War era.
Autorentext
Vorwort
This is a book about secrets: family secrets and government secrets. An incredible memoir and exposé about growing up next to America's most important nuclear facility of the Cold War era.
Autorentext
Kristen Iversen received a Ph.D. in English from the University of Denver. She is Director of the MFA Program in Creative Writing at The University of Memphis and also Editor-in-Chief of The Pinch, an award-winning literary journal. Kristen Iversen has two sons and currently lives in Memphis.
Titel
Full Body Burden
Untertitel
Growing Up in the Shadow of a Secret Nuclear Facility
Autor
EAN
9781448104673
ISBN
978-1-4481-0467-3
Format
E-Book (epub)
Hersteller
Herausgeber
Veröffentlichung
05.07.2012
Digitaler Kopierschutz
Adobe-DRM
Dateigrösse
1.31 MB
Anzahl Seiten
416
Jahr
2012
Untertitel
Englisch
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