![]() Whether gazing at the issue of feminism from within Mormon culture or - as in her recently released book, Finding Beauty in a Broken World - how building a memorial in Rwanda out of the scraps of atrocity can create a sense of new community and bonding, her work attempts to bear witness to the myriad connections between the world “out there” and the world inside us. ![]() Indeed, in “The Clan of the One-Breasted Women,” the epilogue to Refuge, Williams links the high incidence of cancer in her family - which in the years since the publication of her book has also struck her-with the atomic bomb testing going on “upwind” of Salt Lake City in the 1950s and 1960s, an example of how the effects of American Cold War policy towards the Soviet Union ended up physically injuring even our own citizens.Ī naturalist by training, Williams’s work is indeed about place - for the most part the deserts and canyons and red rock country of Utah-but it is above all about human connection to land. IN 1991, TERRY Tempest Williams published Refuge: An Unnatural History of Place, based on the trauma occurring both to her land and to her family, the rise in the water level of the Great Salt Lake that was threatening the Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge on its usually parched shores, juxtaposed with her account of her mother’s struggle with ovarian cancer. ![]() ![]() A Conversation with Terry Tempest Williams ![]()
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