Ebook {Epub PDF} A Girls Guide to Missiles: Growing Up in Americas Secret Desert by Karen Piper

 · At its core, Karen Piper’s memoir “A Girl’s Guide to Missiles: Growing up in America’s Secret Desert” is about war. However, it’s not just about military warfare and the weapons used to wage it, developed in the laboratories in California’s China Lake Desert where Piper’s parents worked and raised her and her sister/5.  · Karen Piper has written a new memoir called "A Girl's Guide To Missiles: Growing Up In America's Secret Desert." The book also has the story of a cover-up on the test www.doorway.ru: Terry Gross. “Karen Piper's A Girl's Guide To Missiles reaches back into the body of American war and retrieves the heart of a girl, still beating, not beaten. Her memoir riveted me--I read it in one sitting holding my breath as she made a story braid from growing up a girl and growing up in the military industrial complex at the China Lake missile range/5(69).

A related thought experiment can be found in Karen Piper's memoir, A Girl's Guide to Missiles: Growing up in America's Secret Desert (Viking, $27). The book, a tale of domestic life on China Lake—the southern California weapons research and testing site—has a brilliantly overdetermined setup, one that yields both black comedy and. Browse the wide selection of Cheap Discount books by Karen Piper at our online discount bookstore. Read-iculously low prices! FREE shipping on orders over $35 USD! What We're Reading: "A Girl's Guide to Missiles: Growing Up in America's Secret Desert" by Karen Piper When Karen Piper's Dad, Earl Piper, finds himself without work in the seventies, he takes a job at the Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake in the middle of the California's Mojave desert.

A Girl’s Guide to Missiles: Growing Up in America’s Secret Desert. Karen Piper. Viking, $27 (p) ISBN Piper (The Price of Thirst) chronicles her coming-of-age in this. Slow moving tale of a family obsessed with the secrets that they all had to keep everyday of their lives while working and growing up on China Lake, Nevada helping to build missiles run by the United States Navy. Growing up with difficulties caused by strict rules that have to be followed on a secretive military base such as that place. “Karen Piper's A Girl's Guide To Missiles reaches back into the body of American war and retrieves the heart of a girl, still beating, not beaten. Her memoir riveted me--I read it in one sitting holding my breath as she made a story braid from growing up a girl and growing up in the military industrial complex at the China Lake missile range.