# Plastic

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- Book: [Plastic](https://www.bookquiver.com/allison-cobb/plastic) ([Plastic.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/allison-cobb/plastic.md))
- Authors: [Allison Cobb](https://www.bookquiver.com/allison-cobb)
- Publisher: Nightboat Books
- ISBN: 978-16-4362-038-1
- Pages: 352
- Published: 2021-06-03
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

WINNER of the 2022 Oregon Book Award for Creative Nonfiction! WINNER of the 2022 CLMP Firecracker Award in Creative Nonfiction!“Plastic is powerful and moving, a deep, personal exploration of the modern world.”—Richard Rhodes, Pulitzer Prize recipient for The Making of the Atomic Bomb In Plastic: An Autobiography, Cobb’s obsession with a large plastic car part leads her to explore the violence of our consume-and-dispose culture, including her own life as a child of Los Alamos, where the first atomic bombs were made. The journey exposes the interconnections among plastic waste, climate change, nuclear technologies, and racism. Using a series of interwoven narratives―from ancient Phoenicia to Alabama―the book bears witness to our deepest entanglements and asks how humans continue on this planet.