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Can I read Full Body Burden : Growing Up in the Nuclear Shadow of Rocky Flats on EtoBox?
Full Body Burden : Growing Up in the Nuclear Shadow of Rocky Flats by Iversen, Kristen is a history book available to read on EtoBox.
What is Full Body Burden : Growing Up in the Nuclear Shadow of Rocky Flats about?
Full Body Burden is a haunting work of narrative nonfiction about a young woman 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 growing up 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. It's also a book about the destructive power of secrets--both family secrets and government secrets. Her father's hidden liquor bottles, the strange cancers in children in the neighborhood, the truth about what they made at Rocky Flats (cleaning supplies, her mother guessed)--best not to inquire too deeply into any of it. But as Iversen grew older, she began to ask questions. In her early thirties, she even worked at Rocky Flats for a time, typing up memos in which accidents were always called ''incidents.'' And as this memoir unfolds, it...
Who reads Full Body Burden : Growing Up in the Nuclear Shadow of Rocky Flats?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Iversen, Kristen
- Publisher
- Crown Publishing Group
- Published
- 2013
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780307955654
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- Memoir, Social Science, Technology
- Rating
- 3.99 / 5 (79 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14