Full Body Burden: Growing Up in the Nuclear Shadow of Rocky Flats by Kristen Iversen
Publisher: Crown | ISBN: 030795563X | 2012 | EPUB | 416 pages | 3.3 MB
Full Body Burden is 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.