{"title":"Kristen Iversen","description":"Kristen Iversen grew up in Arvada, Colorado, near the Rocky Flats nuclear weaponry facility and received a Ph.D. in English from the University of Denver. She is head of the PhD program in Literary Nonfiction at the University of Cincinnati. During the summers, she serves on the faculty of the MFA Low-Residency Program at the University of New Orleans, held in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, and in Edinburgh, Scotland. She is also the author of Molly Brown: Unraveling the Myth,  winner of the Colorado Book Award for Biography and the Barbara Sudler Award for Nonfiction. Iversen has two sons and lives in Cincinnati.","products":[{"product_id":"full-body-burden-growing-up-in-the-nuclear-shadow-of-rocky-flats-paperback","title":"Full Body Burden: Growing Up in the Nuclear Shadow of Rocky Flats - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"An intimate and deeply human memoir that shows why we should all be concerned about nuclear safety, and the dangers of ignoring science in the name of national security.\"--Rebecca Skloot, #1 \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eThe Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eA \"powerful\" (\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e) account of the government's attempt to conceal the effects of the toxic waste released by a secret nuclear weapons plant in Colorado and a community's vain search for justice--soon to be a feature documentary\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWINNER OF THE COLORADO BOOK AWARD AND THE READING THE WEST BOOK AWARD \u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eKristen Iversen grew up in a small Colorado town close to Rocky Flats, a secret nuclear weapons plant once designated \"the most contaminated site in America.\" \u003ci\u003eFull Body Burden\u003c\/i\u003e is the story of a childhood and adolescence in the shadow of the Cold War, in a landscape at once startlingly beautiful and--unknown to those who lived there--tainted with invisible yet deadly particles of plutonium. It's also a book about the destructive power of secrets--both family and government. Her father's hidden liquor bottles, the strange cancers in children in the neighborhood, the truth about what was made at Rocky Flats--best not to inquire too deeply into any of it. But as Iversen grew older, she began to ask questions and discovered some disturbing realities. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBased on extensive interviews, FBI and EPA documents, and class-action testimony, this taut, beautifully written book is both captivating and unnerving.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003eKIRKUS REVIEWS \u003c\/i\u003eAND \u003ci\u003eMOTHER JONES \u003c\/i\u003eBEST BOOK OF THE YEAR\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51269330305247,"sku":"9780307955654","price":24.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/yGRt728XGc9780307955654.webp?v=1787752864"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/kristen-iversen.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}