It is 1943, and 11-year-old Dewey Kerrigan is traveling west on a train to live with her scientist father—but no one, not her father nor the military guardians who accompany her, will tell her exactly where he is. When she reaches Los Alamos, New Mexico, she learns why: he's working on a top secr...
This book wasn't as deep as I wanted it to be, but I enjoyed it mainly for the glimpse it provided of Dewey and Suze in their lives post-Los Alamos. I wanted to see more repercussions in the lives of scientists who created the atomic bomb and while there were moments that offered that, it wasn't ...