Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place - Terry Tempest Williams

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Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place, Terry Tempest Williams, 1991, United States, NONFICTION

"...With a naturalist's concern for detail, a poet's sense of language, and the tenderness of a daughter and granddaughter, Terry Tempest Williams invites the reader into her thoughts as she struggles to understand her loss and grief. Ultimately, "a poetics of landscape becomes a politics of landscape" as she discovers that when she was a child, she and her family witnessed nuclear bomb tests conducted in Utah by the government; although she has no proof, she becomes convinced that it was the nuclear fallout that caused the devastating illnesses in her family..."

(A.C., p. 259)