This has been on my bookshelf for years. And since we've been sheltered in place, I have had a tough time finding a book that grabbed me or, at least, held my interest long enough for me to finish it! This book - The Atomic City Girls by Janet Beard* - was the first book I've finished in weeks! That's a rarity for me. I can usually breeze through a book or two every week. But these are not normal times, I suppose. On the Page Historical fiction is usually my genre of choice though WWII hasn't been my era of choice. Though I have certainly read more in that epoch in recent months such as The Winemaker's Wife and At the Wolf's Table ; and I do have Hannah's War on my nightstand as well. This is a novel - set in Oak Ridge, Tennessee - about the "girls" who are unwittingly helping in the calibration and production of the atomic bomb. They are technically women, but just barely eighteen years old; and they are unwittingly helping becau...