Loose of earth : a memoir
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Dolores County School-Public Library - DOLORHIGH - NONFICTION | 618.92 BLA | On Shelf |
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Blackburn, Kathleen Dorothy.
Cancer -- Environmental aspects.
Cancer -- Patients -- Family relationships.
Children of cancer patients -- Biography.
Evangelicalism -- Health aspects.
Fundamentalists -- United States -- Biography.
Groundwater -- Pollution -- Health aspects -- Ogallala Aquifer.
Perfluorinated chemicals -- Health aspects.
Spiritual healing -- Christianity.
Texas -- Biography.
Cancer -- Environmental aspects.
Cancer -- Patients -- Family relationships.
Children of cancer patients -- Biography.
Evangelicalism -- Health aspects.
Fundamentalists -- United States -- Biography.
Groundwater -- Pollution -- Health aspects -- Ogallala Aquifer.
Perfluorinated chemicals -- Health aspects.
Spiritual healing -- Christianity.
Texas -- Biography.
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230 pages ; 23 cm.
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English
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Includes bibliographical references (page 221-230)
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"Kathleen Dorothy Blackburn was the oldest of five children, a twelve-year-old from Lubbock, Texas, whose evangelical family eschewed public education for homeschooling, and wove improbable scientific theories into literal interpretations of the Bible. Then her father, a former air force pilot, was diagnosed with cancer at the age of thirty-eight, and, 'it was like throwing gasoline on the Holy Spirit.' Stirred by her mother, the family committed to an extreme diet and sought deliverance from equally extreme sources: a traveling tent preacher, a Malaysian holy man, a local faith-healer who led services called 'Miracles on 34th Street.' What they didn’t know at the time was that their lives were entangled with a larger, less visible environmental catastrophe. Fire-fighting foams containing carcinogenic compounds had contaminated the drinking water of every military site where her father worked. Commonly referred to as 'forever chemicals,' the presence of PFAS in West Texas besieged a landscape already burdened with vanishing water, taking up residence in wells and in the bloodstreams of people who lived there....[A] powerful cry for environmental justice, Loose of Earth captures the desperate futility and unbending religious faith that devastated a family, leaving them waiting for a miracle that would never come.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Blackburn, K. D. (2024). Loose of earth: a memoir (First edition.). University of Texas Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Blackburn, Kathleen Dorothy. 2024. Loose of Earth: A Memoir. University of Texas Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Blackburn, Kathleen Dorothy. Loose of Earth: A Memoir University of Texas Press, 2024.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Blackburn, Kathleen Dorothy. Loose of Earth: A Memoir First edition., University of Texas Press, 2024.
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