The Palouse Hills in eastern Washington State are known as home of the golden wheatlands. The region was forever changed by the dispersal of nuclear waste -- accidental and intentional -- from the Hanford Atomic Plant only 100 miles south. This wise, irreverent, and bittersweet story tells of a farmgirl's coming of age on a radioactive Prairie, and is, in Terry Tempest Williams's words, "searing and revelatory."