Format:
Eaudiobook, Audio Books, Nonmusical Sound Recording, Read-along, Electronic Resources
Title:
Full body burden [electronic resource] : growing up in the nuclear shadow of Rocky Flats / Kristen Iversen.
Author:
Iversen, Kristen.
Call Number:
Audio eBook
Web Site:
Web Link Available online.
Publisher, Date:
[New York] : Books on Tape, 2012.
Description:
1 sound file (13 hr., 53 min., 20 sec.) : digital.
Summary:
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. It's also a book about the destructive power of secrets--both family and government. Her father's hidden liquor bottles, the strange cancers in children in the neighborhood, the truth about what was made at Rocky Flats (cleaning supplies, her mother guessed)--best not to inquire too deeply into any of it.
Subjects:
Iversen, Kristen.
Rocky Flats Plant (U.S.) -- Environmental aspects.
Rocky Flats Plant (U.S.) -- History.
Rocky Flats Plant (U.S.) -- Health aspects.
Nuclear weapons plants -- Health aspects -- Colorado.
Plutonium -- Health aspects -- Colorado.
Radioactive waste sites -- Cleanup -- Colorado.
Radioactive pollution -- Colorado -- Jefferson County.
Jefferson County (Colo.) -- Biography.
Genre:
Audiobooks.
Downloadable audio books.
Other Author:
Potter, Kirsten.
ISBN:
9780449009697 (electronic audio bk.)
0449009696 (electronic audio bk.)