Refuge

An Unnatural History of Family and Place

By: Terry Tempest Williams

Narrated by: Terry Tempest Williams

In the spring of 1983 Terry Tempest Williams learned that her mother was dying of cancer. That same season, The Great Salt Lake began to rise to record heights, threatening the Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge and the herons, owls, and snowy egrets that Williams, a poet and naturalist, had come to gauge her life by. One event was nature at its most random, the other a by-product of rogue technology: Terry's mother, and Terry herself, had been exposed to the fallout of atomic bomb tests in the 1950s. As it interweaves these narratives of dying and accommodation, Refuge transforms tragedy into a document of renewal and spiritual grace, resulting in a work that has become a classic.

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Stunning!

This book is a kind reminder of our deep interconnectedness to our home. What happens to our Mother Earth happens to us as women. Beautiful through and through.

Everyone should read this book.

If book is followed by ideas and full of inspiration and full of what it is to be a human being and is great

Simply Beautiful

I absolutely loved this story. Terry Tempest Williams has a wonderful writing style that just pulls the reader in. The fact that she also narrates makes the book just that much better because she's emphasizing the words and parts she she wrote them, not how a voice actor interprets them.

so boring. terrible performance, made me fall asleep

performance, language, energy. very drowsy, regret using credits for this and also have to have 15 words.