A Girl's Guide to Missiles: Growing Up in America's Secret Desert

A surreal and poignant coming of age on a secretive missile facility, and "an incredible view of...life in a town built for war."—Booklist

The China Lake missile range is located in a huge stretch of the Mojave Desert, about the size of the state of Delaware. It was created during the Second World War, and has always been shrouded in secrecy. But people who make missiles and other weapons are regular working people, with domestic routines and everyday dilemmas, and four of them were Karen Pi...