Atomic farmgirl

Teri Hein explores a childhood marked by horseback riding, haying, casseroles, a stoic German Lutheran tradition, and the Cold War duck-and-cover drills of the '50s. Who's life and the lives of those in the community she lives in are forever changed by the dispersal of nuclear waste - accidental and intentional - from the Hanford Atomic Plant only 100 miles south.

First sentence: Gypsy, our Welsh mare, seemed as tall as a house and as wild as the stallion she wasn't when she remembered the clover on the north side of the house and took off.

Year

2000

Language

English

Publisher

Mariner Books

Editions

1

Pages

272

ISBN

9780618302413

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