Folding Paper Cranes

Description:

A bronze monument - the Tower of a Thousand Cranes - stands in Hiroshima's International Peace Park, mute testimony to Sadako Sasaki, a young victim of the atomic bomb whose radiation-induced leukemia led to her death after she had folded only six hundred cranes." "In Leonard Bird's haunting memoir, Sadako's monument becomes a touchstone for his own experiences with cancer and the bomb. Exposed to radiation during aboveground detonations at the Nevada Test Site in the 1950s, Bird must find a way to make peace not only with his past but with a future shadowed by nuclear proliferation. In committing his story to paper, Bird gains, with each reader, another paper crane.

subjects: Atomic bomb,  Atomic bomb victims,  Biography,  Cancer,  Health aspects,  Health aspects of Atomic bomb,  Nuclear weapons,  Patients,  Testing,  United States,  United States. Marines,  USA,  United States. Marine Corps,  Gesundheitsgefa˜hrdung,  USA Marine Corps,  Krebs,  Kernwaffentest,  United states, army, biography

People: Sadako Sasaki (1943-1955),  Leonard Bird

Places: Nevada,  United States,  Hiroshima,  Japan