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A review by emilyb_chicago
The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women by Kate Moore
3.0
Very detailed and heavily cited, Radium Girls is very much a factual accounting of the world that these girls lived in. The detail and repetitiveness of girls terrible illnesses are reviewed in great detail and it is very hard to read. If you are looking for fact and detail, then you will love this book.
The first two sections cover different factories but tell essentially the same story. I personally would have preferred them merged. I found the last section the most interesting. It described the evolution of the legal fight between the girl(s) and the companies. The epilogue was well written - a summary with details and very interesting.
I am glad I know this information, but feel like fewer citations and some heavy editing would make this book much more readable. I was one of the very few from my book club who got through the entire book.
The first two sections cover different factories but tell essentially the same story. I personally would have preferred them merged. I found the last section the most interesting. It described the evolution of the legal fight between the girl(s) and the companies. The epilogue was well written - a summary with details and very interesting.
I am glad I know this information, but feel like fewer citations and some heavy editing would make this book much more readable. I was one of the very few from my book club who got through the entire book.