Ebook: Nuclear Family

Violent events, both global and familial, permeate a girl’s coming of age.

Jean Van Loon’s father was a metallurgist in an Ottawa lab that contributed to the Manhattan Project. Unbeknownst even to the family, her mother worked for Canada’s Cold War intelligence service. Rooted in memory and history, Loon carries the reader into the sense of impending nuclear doom and the material wealth that shaped the poet’s childhood.