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Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place

Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place

by Terry Tempest Williams
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In the spring of 1983 Terry Tempest Williams learned that her mother was dying of cancer. That same season, The Great Salt Lake began to rise to record heights, threatening the herons, owls, and snowy egrets that Williams, a poet and naturalist, had come to gauge her life by. One event was nature at its most random, the other a by-product of rogue technology: Terry's mother, and Terry herself, had been exposed to the fallout of atomic bomb tests in the 1950s. As it interweaves these narratives of dying and accommodation, Refugetransforms tragedy into a document of renewal and spiritual grace, resulting in a work that has become a classic.

Book Details

ISBN13 9780679740247
ISBN10 0679740244
Series/Work OL3746241W View on OpenLibrary
Publisher Vintage
Language ENG
Created At January 30, 2025
Updated At January 30, 2025
Last OL update January 18, 2025

Subjects

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