Welcome to Shirley: A Memoir from an Atomic Town
Kelly McMasters
(Author)
Description
Shirley seemed to be doomed from the beginning. Founded by a Vaudevillian huckster who touted it as a seaside haven despite the sand bar that blocks access to the shore, the town has been plagued by one disaster after anothera UFO, a childhood cancer cluster, and a mysterious federal nuclear laboratory in nearby Brookhaven that leaked toxic nuclear and chemical waste into the aquifer from which the residents unknowingly drew their well water.Product Details
Price
$21.99
Publisher
PublicAffairs
Publish Date
December 01, 2015
Pages
328
Dimensions
5.5 X 8.2 X 0.8 inches | 0.85 pounds
Language
English
Type
Paperback
EAN/UPC
9781610397063
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About the Author
Kelly McMasters is the author of The Leaving Season and Welcome to Shirley, an Orion Book Award finalist, and coeditor of the anthologies Wanting: Women Writing About Desire and This Is the Place: Women Writing About Home, a New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice. Her essays and reviews have appeared in the New York Times, the Atlantic, the Washington Post Magazine, and the Paris Review Daily. A former bookshop owner, she teaches at Hofstra University and lives in New York.
