Synopsis
A thought-provoking and dramatic account details the author's family who immigrated from Italy and Barbadoes to start a new life in the boglands of New Jersey only to discover, much too late, that their new living environment was riddled with radiation and toxic waste, which led to infertility and the destruction of their dream. 25,000 first printing.
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Susanne Antonetta is the author of three collections of poems, including Bardo, a Brittingham Prize winner and Library Booklist Notable Book. She lives near Seattle with her husband, a poet, and her young son.
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"This is the story of a body," writes Antonetta, a body betrayed. As a child, Antonetta loved her family's modest summer home in the boggy coastal region of New Jersey's mysterious Pine Barrens. She and her relatives relished their well water and the fish and crabs they caught, blissfully unaware that the Ciba-Geigy chemical plant was spewing lead, mercury, arsenic, cyanide, and other poisons into the water supply, or that the flawed Oyster Creek Nuclear Power Plant routinely bathed them in radiation. The kids even ran after the trucks that dowsed them in clouds of DDT every week. Inevitably, Antonetta's paradise became infamous for its toxicity and high incidence of cancer, and she now revisits her childhood memories and girlhood diaries in an attempt to understand the life that made her infertile and turned her body into a veritable tumor factory. Bittersweet and spiked with startlingly poetic descriptions, Antonetta's compelling blend of family history and musings on crimes against nature in the nuclear age opens a new chapter in the literature of place and offers a fresh and poignant look at the old story of inheritance. Donna Seaman
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