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Full Body Burden: Growing Up in the Nuclear Shadow of Rocky Flats by Kristen Iversen

4.0

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A bit dry to be honest, and there's more than a few occurrences where you wish she would stop talking about her home life and go back to the plant, or stop talking about the plant and return to her own life as the tempo of the story increases and decreases. Overall it was a solid, well written, highly enjoyable book. To me, it stood out for the connection I could make, these weren't just characters in a story, they were real people, people who suffered and died simply for the sake of a few bombs. It told a story that should have been uncovered years ago, the story of the Cold War from the victims view.