Yellowcake
By: Ann Cummins
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Boston [Mass.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 303
ISBN-13: 9780618269266
Subjects: Health and hygiene; Conflict of generations; Families; Navajo Indians; Uranium miners; Fiction
Other titles: Yellow cake
Description: More than thirty years after the closing of a nearby uranium mine, the arrival of Becky Atcitty, the daughter of a former Navajo mill worker and a woman involved in a group seeking damages for exposure to radioactive dust, sparks conflict in the life of Ryland Mahoney and his family, in the story of two families--one Navajo, one Anglo.