Full Body Burden: Growing Up in the Nuclear Shadow of Rocky Flats
- ISBN-10
- 0307955656
- ISBN-13
- 9780307955654
- Category
- Biography & Autobiography
- Pages
- 416
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2013
- Publisher
- Crown Publishing Group (NY)
- Author
- Kristen Iversen
Description
A narrative report by a woman who grew up near the Rocky Flats nuclear weapon facility describes the dark secrets that dominated her childhood, the strange cancers that afflicted her neighbors, her brief employment at Rocky Flats and the efforts of residents to achieve legal justice. 30,000 first printing.
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