Dana Styer Chapter 7

While reading this book, I thought the life of Kris was a story made up to correspond with the story of Rocky Flats.  She states after quitting that, “…my relationship with Rocky Flats has only just begun” (283).  This book is a not just a connection to Kristen Iverson’s life, but an exact story of it.  Actually, while reading that sentence I made the connection between the names of the main character and the author! She also states on the same page that, “I want to write about the two things that have frightened me the most in life…Rocky Flats, and Dad’s alcoholism.”  As we discussed in class, I believe that Iverson used this book as a way to let her feelings out and cope with her denial.   Though Kris had spent years on other countries around the world, she finds herself most interested in and connected with the life she left behind.  Now that she has been inside the walls of Rocky Flats, she has a fuller understanding that also might help her understand the secrets of her family.