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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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For readers of A Civil Action and Silent Spring, a harrowing story of a family, a body, and a place: the Pine Barrens of southern New Jersey, one of the most environmentally contaminated places in the country. The author's family-immigrants from Italy on one side and Barbados on the other-tried to realize the American dream by building a summer escape in the boglands of New Jersey where the rural and industrial collide. They picked gooseberries along the chain-link fence of Oyster Creek Nuclear Power Plant while it released more radiation than Three Mile Island. They rowed dinghies along creeks contaminated with drums of toxic waste-waste dumped illegally by various chemical companies. One by one, they discovered their own infertility, while throughout the area parents were being asked to donate their children's baby teeth to be tested for traces of radiation. Body Toxic merges the personal and familial with the historical, political, and environmental in a way that creates a new genre: environmental memoir, fusing fact and meditation, the intensely intimate and the starkly political.
Brave, harrowing, beautifully written, Antonetta's memoir explores an American family in the midst of the wreckage of the American dream."About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.
- PublisherCounterpoint
- Publication date2001
- ISBN 10 1582431167
- ISBN 13 9781582431161
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages256
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