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A review by ashley_briana26
The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women by Kate Moore
emotional
informative
inspiring
medium-paced
5.0
This book is a respectful telling of the lives of the Radium Girls. I came into this knowing nothing about them except that they existed and I closed this book only two days later and I have a much better understanding of the situation and the girls. This takes them from a vague concept of workplace safety and transforms them into real women that lived, worked, suffered, and died. The respect the author has for these victims is evident in her writing. This is not a bland statement of facts but a real story that’s being told that makes it easy to read. I highly recommend.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Cancer, Medical trauma, Murder, Death, Grief, Chronic illness, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Misogyny, Panic attacks/disorders, and Terminal illness
Minor: Miscarriage, Infertility, War, Abortion, and Death of parent