An arresting Memoir of love and unbending religion, toxicity and disease, and one family\'s desperate wait for a miracle that never came.
An arresting portrait of the pernicious creep of decline, and a powerful cry for environmental justice, Loose of Earth captures the desperate futility and unbending religious faith that devastated a family, leaving them waiting for a miracle that would never come..
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.
Fire-fighting foams containing carcinogenic compounds had contaminated the drinking water of every military site where her father worked.
What they didn\'t know at the time was that their lives were entangled with a larger, less visible environmental catastrophe.
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.
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.
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 science for literal interpretations of the bible.
An arresting Memoir of love and unbending religion, toxicity and disease, and one family\'s desperate wait for a miracle that never came
