ABOUT
THE BOOK

Paul Bannerman, an ecologist in Africa, believes he’s in control of the trajectory of his life. But when he’s diagnosed with thyroid cancer he’s prescribed treatment that makes him radioactive and for a period a danger to others. Taken in by his parents to protect his wife and child from radiation, threats of projects to build a nuclear reactor and drain the country’s vital wetlands preoccupy Paul and the strange state of his existence leads his mother to face her own past.