The Atomic City Girls. By Janet Beard. 2018. Morrow.
As the Manhattan Project produced the first American atomic bombs in Los Alamos, New Mexico, a gated city sprang up in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, to produce uranium, though many working there had no idea what they were involved in, including young June Walker and African American construction worker Joe Brewer.
The Big Green Tent. By Ludmila Ulitskaya. Tr. by Bela Shayevich. 2014. Picado.
This sprawling novel offers a wide-angle view of the stark realities of Soviet repression from the death of Stalin in 1953 to the 1970s and beyond, portraying literati, scientists, artists, educators, retired generals, apparatchiks, dissenters, KGB agents, and KGB informants.
The Cassandra. By Sharma Shields. 2019. Holt.
Mildred Groves, poor, gauche, and prone to seizures, sleepwalking, and prophecy,…
