

The Atomic City Girls
A Novel
Author: Janet Beard
Narrator: Xe Sands
Unabridged: 8 hr 47 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: HarperAudio
Published: 02/06/2018
Categories: Fiction, Historical Fiction, Romance
Author: Janet Beard
Narrator: Xe Sands
Unabridged: 8 hr 47 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: HarperAudio
Published: 02/06/2018
Categories: Fiction, Historical Fiction, Romance
Born and raised in East Tennessee, Janet Beard moved to New York to study screenwriting at NYU and went on to earn an MFA in creative writing from The New School. Janet lives in Columbus, Ohio, where she is teaching writing, raising a daughter, and working on a new novel.
3.5 stars rounded up. The title of this novel is a misnomer in some ways. It’s not just about the the women who worked for the Manhattan Project, called for purposes of security Clinton Engineering Works, in Oak Ridge, Tennessee in the 1940’s. It was about men as well, about what the everyday life wa......more
Okay. I found what was going on in this book so super interesting from a historical perspective? But from a reader's perspective I was like...how did this get past an agent let alone probably multiple editors and people with brains who read things? It is SO. UNBEARABLY. DULL. It's written about as i......more
After reading the nonfiction book, The Girls of Atomic City: The Untold Story of the Women Who Helped Win World War II, I was eager to read more about Oak Ridge and the people who worked there. Unfortunately, not that many books have been written about the people however this historical fiction book......more