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""Back then, there were no support groups, no Cancer for Dummies, and in her grief and anger, she whisked me off to those anti-nuke rallies where people shouted themselves hoarse about the end of the world."" In search of her father's killer, author Ceiridwen Terrill sets out on foot for the atomic frontier, the birthplace of plutonium in the heart of the Pacific Northwest. Along the way, she encounters people, animals, and landscapes forever changed by that secret factory in the desert. Terrill's own family uprooted themselves from Oklahoma to become part of the plucky and hopeful lot who carried on the plutonium mission after WWII. As a Cold War daughter, she discovers that when you go searching for truths, you can't keep only the ones you like-you have to keep them all.

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Ceiridwen Terrill began her career as a university professor. She now uses her research and teaching skills as a sports therapist for top performance horses. She is the author of two books, Unnatural Landscapes (University of Arizona Press) and Part Wild (Scribner), which was a finalist for the Oregon Book Award. Her essays have been published in Slate, Oxford American, and High Country News, among others. Ceiridwen lives with her husband, the artist/illustrator LJ Kinzer, ""Monk,"" on a wooded property bordering Forest Park, a wild area on the edge of Portland, Oregon. LJ Kinzer, ""Monk,"" earned a BFA from Pacific Northwest College of Art and served as a graphic artist in the 82nd Airborne. He has shown his paintings at Dark Halle in Germany, as well as Quartersaw and Acanthus Galleries in Portland, Oregon.

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