Lindsey A. Freeman is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Simon Fraser University and the author of Longing for the Bomb: Oak Ridge and Atomic Nostalgia (2015).
"In this book things radiate and travel-they're both material and
immaterial, pulsing and still. Adding texture to the relationship
between materiality and memory, Lindsey Freeman shows how tightly
history and biography, social imaginaries and social worlds, are
sewn together and emerge in scenes of everyday living." -- Kathleen
Stewart * University of Texas at Austin *
"These discrete vignettes spark off each other, collectively
producing a text that is kaleidoscopic, wondrous, and witty.
Sometimes richly comic, sometimes just quirky, but never
sentimental or sugary, the writing is wry, the gaze jaundiced;
there is love and affection but not affectation. Freeman presents
us with an intricately conceived and intensely expressed structure
of feeling, decked out here in vibrant hues." -- Graeme Gilloch *
Lancaster University *
"A gorgeously crafted memoir about the atomic sensorium of Oak
Ridge, Tennessee. Funny, wrenching, erudite. Gulp it down in a
single sitting." -- Gabrielle Hecht * author of Being
Nuclear *
"With a scholar's rigor and a granddaughter's wistful heart,
Lindsey Freeman reminds us-by atomizing memory and emotion with
poetic authority-that nuclear might, at its core, is not a matter
of techno-strategy, or even science, but a burden of the body,
mind, and heart." -- Dan Zak * author of Almighty: Courage,
Resistance and Existential Peril in the Nuclear Age *
"Narrated in a voice both wildly innocent and deeply wise, This
Atom Bomb in Me creates an astonishing, provocative collage of
text and image that challenges us to face the devastating history
and legacy of the nuclear age. Lyrical and poignant, with a dose of
good storytelling, Lindsey Freeman's book sings of the urgency of
our times." -- Kristen Iversen * University of Cincinnati, author
of Full Body Burden: Growing Up in the Nuclear Shadow of Rocky
Flats *
"Through a tapestry of interwoven vignettes, Freeman...revisits the
surreal side of her Reagan-era childhood in a beautiful and
haunting memoir....[An] evocative, quietly probing account." --
Publisher's Weekly
"In This Atom Bomb in Me, [Freeman] assembles her 'blocks of
text' into an artistic structure as solid as the Comesto houses
themselves and spacious enough to hold the heart of a sensitive and
thoughtful child growing up in an unusual place...This Atom Bomb
in Me is more than a memoir. It's also a work of social
science, however unconventional." -- Tina Chambers * Chapter
16 *
"Both the mundane and the mysterious irradiate this slim memoir,
which builds into something more than just the remembrance of a
uniquely situated adolescence in Reagan's America. In addition to
an idiosyncratic consideration of memory and belonging, This
Atom Bomb in Me offers a poetic exploration of how culture and
identity synthesize each other." -- Will Wlizlo * Rain Taxi
Review of Books *
"This Atom Bomb in Me is a sensitive experiment in producing
theory from the place of the wolf, the belly of memory....I read
this short book voraciously twice." -- Yani Kong * Memory
Studies *
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