{"product_id":"loose-of-earth-a-memoir-hardcover","title":"Loose of Earth: A Memoir - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eKathleen Dorothy Blackburn\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn arresting memoir of love and unbending religion, toxicity and disease, and one family's desperate wait for a miracle that never came.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Kathleen Dorothy Blackburn was the oldest of five children, a twelve-year-old from Lubbock, Texas, whose evangelical family eschewed public education for homeschooling, and wove improbable scientific theories into literal interpretations of the Bible. Then her father, a former air force pilot, was diagnosed with cancer at the age of thirty-eight, and, \"it was like throwing gasoline on the Holy Spirit.\" Stirred by her mother, the family committed to an extreme diet and sought deliverance from equally extreme sources: a traveling tent preacher, a Malaysian holy man, a local faith-healer who led services called \"Miracles on 34th Street.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e What they didn't know at the time was that their lives were entangled with a larger, less visible environmental catastrophe. Fire-fighting foams containing carcinogenic compounds had contaminated the drinking water of every military site where her father worked. Commonly referred to as \"forever chemicals,\" the presence of PFAS in West Texas besieged a landscape already burdened with vanishing water, taking up residence in wells and in the bloodstreams of people who lived there. An arresting portrait of the pernicious creep of decline, and a powerful cry for environmental justice, \u003ci\u003eLoose of Earth\u003c\/i\u003e captures the desperate futility and unbending religious faith that devastated a family, leaving them waiting for a miracle that would never come. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Kathleen Dorothy Blackburn teaches in the University of Chicago Creative Writing Program. She is a Pushcart Prize nominee whose work has appeared in \u003ci\u003eColorado Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eGuernica\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eGulf Coast\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePleiades\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eswamp pink\u003c\/i\u003e, and was listed as notable in \u003ci\u003eBest American Essays\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 216\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.94 x 8.74 x 5.83 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 16, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51748863869216,"sku":"9781477329627","price":26.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/311ec51eebad7fc3d52c3729114edf20.webp?v=1779918538","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/loose-of-earth-a-memoir-hardcover","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}