Nowhere Like This Place
Tales from a Nuclear Childhood
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Narrateur(s):
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Marilyn Carr
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Marilyn Carr
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Marilyn Carr’s family arrived in Deep River, Ontario, in 1960 because her dad got a job at a mysterious place called “the plant”. The quirky, isolated residence for the employees of Chalk River Nuclear Laboratories was impeccably designed by a guy named John Bland. It’s a test-tube baby of a town that sprang, fully formed, from the bush north of Algonquin Park, on the shore of the Ottawa river. Everything has already been decided, including the colors of the houses, inside and out. What could possibly go wrong?
Nowhere Like This Place is a coming-of-age memoir set against the backdrop of the weirdness of an enclave with more PhDs per capita than anywhere else on Earth. It’s steeped in thinly veiled sexism and the searing angst of an artsy child trapped in a terrarium full of white-bread nuclear scientists and their nuclear families. Everything happens, and nothing happens, and it all works out in the end. Maybe.
Marilyn Carr is a class of 2020 MFA graduate from the University of King’s College, Halifax, Nova Scotia, which is her fourth degree, but who’s counting? (She is.) She blogs about the absurdness of everyday life at marilyncarr.com and is currently working on the next installment of her memoirs, How I Invented the Internet.
©2020 Marilyn Carr (P)2020 Marilyn CarrCe que les auditeurs disent de Nowhere Like This Place
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Au global3 out of 5 stars
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Performance4 out of 5 stars
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Histoire1 out of 5 stars
- Dave Chapman
- 2024-12-04
Not what you think
I am a fan of everything that has to do with the history of Nuclear science and history. I have gone through as many books as I could on this subject. I am a Canadian and I know the history of this region and what it means to the overall Canadian involvement in Nuclear science. This book barley touches on anything to do with this history.
It is basically a memoir of a thoroughly unhappy child. She reminds me of Holden Caufield from the Catcher in the Rye and is a list of slightly “traumatic” events from her childhood such as climbing a ladder, swimming in the summer or failing math because she did not do the work.
I only write this review because the title and summary are a bit misleading. There is nothing really different or special about where she grew up or who she grew up around. The description would lead you to believe that Deep River was unique because there was “No Where like this Place”. This book really has nothing to do with the history of the nuclear culture in the area it is strictly, and often depressing, coming of age story.
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