June 2008 • Observed
Nuclear Family
Posted June 18, 2008
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Kelly McMasters’s new memoir, Welcome to Shirley, recounts growing up in a small working-class Long Island community with a toxic cloud hanging over it. A former editor at Metropolis, she pairs careful research into a nearby Superfund nuclear laboratory with evocative memories of her childhood, casting what could
be an overwhelming drama of environmental horror in human terms.
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