Phoenix RisingNyle's life with her grandmother on their Vermont sheep farm advances rhythmically through the seasons until the night of the accident at the Cookshire nuclear power plant. Without warning, Nyle's modest world fills with protective masks, evacuations, contaminated food, disruptions, and mistrust. Nyle adjusts to the changes. As long as the fallout continues blowing to the East, Nyle, Gran, and the farm can go on. But into this uncertain haven stumble Ezra Trent and his mother, "refugees" from the heart of the accident, who take temporary shelter in the back bedroom of Nyle's house. The back bedroom is the dying room: It took her mother when Nyle was six; it stole away her grandfather just two years ago. Now Ezra is back there and Nyle doesn't want to open her heart to him. Too many times she's let people in, only to have them desert her. Karen Hesse's voice and vision are grounded in truth; she takes on a nearly unharnessable subject, contains it, and makes it resonate with honesty. Part love story, part coming of age, this is a tour de force by a gifted writer. |
Contents
Section 1 | 3 |
Section 2 | 11 |
Section 3 | 20 |
Section 4 | 30 |
Section 5 | 36 |
Section 6 | 54 |
Section 7 | 60 |
Section 8 | 64 |
Section 12 | 105 |
Section 13 | 120 |
Section 14 | 124 |
Section 15 | 131 |
Section 16 | 142 |
Section 17 | 149 |
Section 18 | 156 |
Section 19 | 158 |
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References to this book
Nuclear Power of the Future: New Ways of Turning Atoms Into Energy John Giacobello No preview available - 2003 |
The Culture of German Environmentalism: Anxieties, Visions, Realities Axel Goodbody No preview available - 2002 |