The Silent Women: Inspired by the True Story of the Manhattan Project's Secret Women

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 marked by dislocation and loss. Even in the rural New England town she now calls home, that dark cloud continues to follow her.

Then the army asks her to take up work at a classified facility i...