Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place
of Terry Tempest Williams
Description
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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- Format Paperback
- Pages 314 pages
- Publisher Vintage
- Publication Date 2001
- First Publication 10/28/91
- Language English
- ISBN 9780679740247
- Edition 10th Anniversary Edition
- Category Other
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