Amy has changed her book selection to "
Full Body Burden" by Kristen Iversen for the Feb. 20, 2015, book club meeting. (This replaces "Lone Survivor.")
Here is the overview from Amazon.com:
"Full Body Burden" is Kristen Iversen's story of growing up in a
small Colorado town close to Rocky Flats, a secret nuclear weapons
plant. 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
—best not to inquire too
deeply into any of it. But as Iversen grew older, she began to ask
questions and discovered some disturbing realities.
As this memoir unfolds, it reveals itself as a brilliant work of investigative journalism
—a
shocking account of the government's sustained attempt to conceal the
effects of the toxic and radioactive waste released by Rocky Flats, and
of local residents' vain attempts to seek justice in court. 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.
They are talking about our small town!
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