Refuge

An Unnatural History of Family and Place

Nonfiction, Health & Well Being, Health, Ailments & Diseases, Cancer, Science & Nature, Nature, Biography & Memoir
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Author: Terry Tempest Williams ISBN: 9780307772732
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group Publication: March 18, 2015
Imprint: Vintage Language: English
Author: Terry Tempest Williams
ISBN: 9780307772732
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication: March 18, 2015
Imprint: Vintage
Language: English

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 Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge and 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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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 Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge and 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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