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The Atomic City Girls
by Janet Beard
This was a solid read but didn't blow me away. The setting is richly described, and I loved the time period. The book follows the Clinton Engineer Works (CEW) portion of the Manhattan Project and takes place in Oak Ridge, TN. Country girl June secures a job operating a factory machine in Oak Ridge, but she isn't allowed to inquire as to what her job is exactly because no one is allowed to discuss their work - with each other or with family back home. June makes friends with her new roommate, Cici, and begins to see Dr. Cantor, a young physicist working in town. The primary downfall of this book for me is that there were only one or two characters I even somewhat liked, so it was difficult to become invested.