Atomic Farmgirl: Growing Up Right in the Wrong Place (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780618302413)

Atomic Farmgirl is a wise, irreverent, deeply personal story of growing up right in the wrong place. The granddaughter of German Lutheran homesteaders, Teri Hein was raised in the 1950s and 1960s in rural eastern Washington. This starkly elegant landscape serves as the poignant backdrop to her story, for one hundred miles to the south of this idyllic, all-American setting lay the toxins -- both mental and physical -- of the Hanford Nuclear Reservation. From horseback riding to haying, Flag Day parades to Cold War duck-and-cover drills, Atomic Farmgirl chronicles a peculiar coming of age for a young girl and her community of hardworking, patriotic folk, whose way of life -- and livelihood -- are gradually threatened by the poisons of progress.
Combining a profoundly tender story of youth with politics and an unmistakable sense of place, Teri Hein has written a memoir that is part Terry Tempest Williams, part Erin Brockovich, part Garrison Keillor. In the end, she offers a rich and ribald journey into the universal mysteries of childhood, love, community, and home, a journey that confirms humankind's infinite capacity for hope.

Author: Teri Hein
ISBN-10: 0618302417
ISBN-13: 9780618302413
Publisher: Mariner Books
Language: English
Published: 04/18/2003
Pages: 272
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.77lbs
Size: 8.51h x 5.54w x 0.68d

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 7.5
Point Value: 14
Interest Level: Upper Grade
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