Racheal Devine                                                 about 150 words

INTD: Science Writing

rmd20@geneseo.edu

One-Breasted Women

In the short essay “The Clan of One-Breasted Women” by Terry Trumpest Williams, she tells the story of her experience living through the “The Years We Bombed Utah”. She starts off with background about her family of mormons and how her grandmothers, mom and 6 aunts and herself have all had mastectomies. They believed this was a result of bad genes, but made the connection that it was rare in mormon families. Then after she is told that her memories of a bright light when she was a child was really the result of a bomb testing she realized that this is where the cancer could have come from. Then she goes on to stand up for what the government is doing to the families around the bomb testings by protesting with other women.  My family is not affected by anything like this or environmental concerns.