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The Silent Women: Inspired by the true story of the Manhattan Project's secret women

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"A beautiful, moving portrait of lives reshaped by war and its aftermath. Tara Lynn Masih is a tremendous talent." —Olivia Hawker, bestselling author of One for the Blackbird, One for the Crow

An extraordinary novel inspired by the real women of Oak Ridge, Tennessee—the Manhattan Project's "Secret City"—where thousands kept the deadliest secret of World War II.

Oklahoma, 1935. Black Sunday. From the moment a wall of black dust devours the plains and buries her world, Song Holloway's life is ...