Hospital Journal
Image from The Ecological Relations of Roots “Once my father became someone transformed and once I was a part of transforming him, into ash, into pollution, into bagged teeth sent away, the world of what was out of sight would not stay gone,” Kathryn Savage writes in Groundglass, a book-length essay about her father’s death from cancer and its likely connection to environmental contamination. As she navigates her grief and weighs the consequences of having lived on the fencelines of industry, Savage visits a number of Superfund sites that complicate the scale of her loss.
Reckoning with crises both personal and ecological, Savage works to map the “culpabilities between extractive industry, illness,
