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An Unnatural History of Family and Place
Vintage
September 1992
On Sale: September 1, 1992
336 pages
ISBN: 0679740244
EAN: 9780679740247
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Non-Fiction
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, Refuge transforms tragedy into a document of
renewal and spiritual grace, resulting in a work that has
become a classic.
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