Title: Folding Paper Cranes
Subtitle: An Atomic Memoir
Description: A bronze monument - the Tower of a Thousand Cranes - stands in Hiroshima's International Peace Park, mute testimony to Sadako Sasaki, a young victim of the atomic bomb whose radiation-induced leukemia led to her death after she had folded only six hundred cranes." "In Leonard Bird's haunting memoir, Sadako's monument becomes a touchstone for his own experiences with cancer and the bomb. Exposed to radiation during aboveground detonations at the Nevada Test Site in the 1950s, Bird must find a way to make peace not only with his past but with a future shadowed by nuclear proliferation. In committing his story to paper, Bird gains, with each reader, another paper crane.
Subjects: Atomic bomb, Atomic bomb victims, Biography, Cancer, Health aspects, Health aspects of Atomic bomb, Nuclear weapons, Patients, Testing, United States, United States. Marines, USA, United States. Marine Corps, Gesundheitsgefahrdung, USA Marine Corps, Krebs, Kernwaffentest, United states, army, biography
Places: Nevada, United States, Hiroshima, Japan
People: Sadako Sasaki (1943-1955), Leonard Bird