Book description
In a desert outpost, nuclear scientists and their families face the toll of the secrets they keep from the world and from each other in this gripping wartime novel from debut author Galina Vromen.
Los Alamos, 1943. The US Army has gathered scientists to create the world's first nuclear weapon.…
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While the team of scientists assembled by J. Robert Oppenheimer races to create the atom bomb at Los Alamos, their families find themselves in a sequestered world in the desert, cut off from everyone and everything they know. Vromen invents a brilliant cast of wives, teenage girls, technicians and physicists, who we come to love. The nature of their husbands’ work is strictly secret. Family life outside the labs is intense and conflicted, a world simmering and bubbling as it threatens to boil over. Even casual correspondence is so heavily censored that family members can barely communicate with friends and…
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