Cricket's Child, 1945-1955: How I Never Learned to Love the Bomb

Centered on a little girl raised in the Appalachian region of North Carolina and then Virginia, Cricket's Child offers a mid—twentieth century social history. The narrative illuminates how historical milestones such as the emergence of a Cold War between the U.S. and the Soviet Union impacted personal experiences in a working class, southern family. After the development of atomic weapons in the 1940's, the specter of a nuclear holocaust loomed ominously in American culture, as well as in t...