THE ATOMIC CITY GIRLS
by Janet Beard
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GENRE: Historical Fiction
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BLURB:
In the bestselling tradition of Hidden Figures and The Wives of
Los Alamos, comes this riveting novel of the everyday people who worked on the
Manhattan Project during World War II.
“What you see here, what you hear here, what you do here, let it
stay here.”
In November 1944, eighteen-year-old June Walker boards an unmarked
bus, destined for a city that doesn’t officially exist. Oak Ridge, Tennessee has
sprung up in a matter of months—a town of trailers and segregated houses,
24-hour cafeterias, and constant security checks. There, June joins hundreds of
other young girls operating massive machines whose purpose is never explained.
They know they are helping to win the war, but must ask no questions and reveal
nothing to outsiders.
The girls spend their evenings socializing and flirting with
soldiers, scientists, and workmen at dances and movies, bowling alleys and
canteens. June longs to know more about their top-secret assignment and begins
an affair with Sam Cantor, the young Jewish physicist from New York who
oversees the lab where she works and understands the end goal only too well,
while her beautiful roommate Cici is on her own mission: to find a wealthy
husband and escape her sharecropper roots. Across town, African-American
construction worker Joe Brewer knows nothing of the government’s plans, only
that his new job pays enough to make it worth leaving his family behind, at
least for now. But a breach in security will intertwine his fate with June’s
search for answers.
When the bombing of Hiroshima brings the truth about Oak Ridge
into devastating focus, June must confront her ideals about loyalty,
patriotism, and war itself.
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AUTHOR Bio and
Links:
Born and raised in East Tennessee, Janet Beard moved to New York
to study screenwriting at NYU and went on to earn an MFA in creative writing
from The New School. Her first novel, Beneath the Pines, was published in 2008.
Janet has lived and worked in Australia, England, Boston, and currently,
Columbus, Ohio, where she is teaching writing, raising a daughter, and working
on a new novel.
Buy links:
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GIVEAWAY INFORMATION
Three
randomly drawn readers will receive a digital copy of the book.
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