oneofthejenns 's review for:

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

4.0

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This is a gripping read, a nice balance of memoir and expose (strange that both words for what it is are French). The details about Rocky Flats and about nuclear-arms-production in this country are truly horrifying; I kept waiting (hoping) for a triumphant ending in which humanitarian and environmental convictions would prevail, but, appallingly, they have not. How contaminated am I? Are we all? How can human beings do such things to each other knowingly?