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Atomic Farmgirl: Growing Up Right in the Wrong Place
by Teri Hein
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About This Book
ISBN13: 9780618302413 
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Synopses & Reviews
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Atomic Farmgirl is a wise, irreverent, deeply personal story of growing up right in the wrong place. The granddaughter of German Lutheran homesteaders, Teri Hein was raised in the 1950s and 1960s in rural eastern Washington. This starkly elegant landscape serves as the poignant backdrop to her story, for one hundred miles to the south of this idyllic, all-American setting lay the toxins — both mental and physical — of the Hanford Nuclear Reservation. From horseback riding to haying, Flag Day parades to Cold War duck-and-cover drills, Atomic Farmgirl chronicles a peculiar coming of age for a young girl and her community of hardworking, patriotic folk, whose way of life — and livelihood — are gradually threatened by the poisons of progress.Combining a profoundly tender story of youth with politics and an unmistakable sense of place, Teri Hein has written a memoir that is part Terry Tempest Williams, part Erin Brockovich, part Garrison Keillor. In the end, she offers a rich and ribald journey into the universal mysteries of childhood, love, community, and home, a journey that confirms humankind's infinite capacity for hope.
Review:
"The book has a neon quality: a warning, mixed iwth irony and loss." -The Los Angeles Times
Synopsis:
From Flag Day parades to Cold War duck-and-cover drills, "Atomic Farmgirl" chronicles a peculiar coming of age for a young girl and her community, whose way of life--and livelihood--are gradually threatened by the dispersions of nuclear waste. Includes a new Foreword and Epilogue by the author.
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Cathy from Olympia, Washington, March 13, 2007 (view all comments by Cathy from Olympia, Washington)
As a transplant to Washington State, I never studied Washington history in school. (Although I am guessing that perhaps the local history so eloquently portrayed in Atomic Farmgirl is NOT found in typical Washington State history books). Anyway, I read this several years ago, and was reminded of the book when I saw the March 12ths Daily Dose title "Atomic Ranch." Atomic Farmgirl is haunting, sad, triumphant... and an amazing read! Those interested in local history, atomic history, biographies will not go wrong reading Atomic Farmgirl. Actually, I think Atomic Farmgirl should be required reading in highschool history classes, particularly in the Northwest!
Product Details
- ISBN:
- 9780618302413
- Subtitle:
- Growing Up Right in the Wrong Place
- Author:
- Publisher:
- Mariner Books
- Location:
- Boston
- Subject:
- Women
- Subject:
- Health Care Delivery
- Subject:
- Ionizing radiation
- Subject:
- Radioactive pollution
- Subject:
- Nuclear weapons plants
- Subject:
- Radiation victims
- Copyright:
- 2003
- Edition Number:
- 1st Mariner ed.
- Edition Description:
- Trade paper
- Series Volume:
- no. 85
- Publication Date:
- April 2003
- Binding:
- Paperback
- Grade Level:
- General/trade
- Language:
- English
- Pages:
- 272
- Dimensions:
- 824x558x68 59
