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The Atomic City Girls
by Janet Beard
I enjoyed this look at Oak Ridge during WWII, especially because I have a family connection. My grandmother worked there in a construction office whole she was in college (from the same home town as June, actually). My grandad came to Oak Ridge as a Chemist just after the bomb dropped and worked in a different building than these characters. My mom and her sister were born there, lived in the gates and just outside the gates for their early childhood.
The story itself was compelling and offers a glimpse of what it might have been like to live and interact with others who also could not talk about their part of the job during this stressful time. My grandad had secrets he couldn't tell about his work even into the 1950s. I felt the struggles were real, the situations believable, and I was looking for resolution to their problems. I'm glad I picked this one up!
The story itself was compelling and offers a glimpse of what it might have been like to live and interact with others who also could not talk about their part of the job during this stressful time. My grandad had secrets he couldn't tell about his work even into the 1950s. I felt the struggles were real, the situations believable, and I was looking for resolution to their problems. I'm glad I picked this one up!