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by Egan, Jennifer
Edition statement:First Scribner trade paperback edition. Published by : Scribner, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc. (New York) Physical details: 438 pages 21 cm ISBN:9781476716749; 1476716749; 9781476716732.
Subject(s): 1939-1945 | Young women -- New York (State) -- New York -- Fiction. | World War -- United States -- Fiction. -- 1939-1945 | Women divers -- Fiction. | Irish Americans -- Fiction. | Organized crime -- New York (State) -- New York -- Fiction. | Absentee fathers -- Fiction. | Missing persons -- Fiction. | Family secrets -- Fiction. | Fiction -- Literary | Fiction -- Historical -- General | Fiction -- General | New York (State) -- New York. | United States. | Thrillers (Fiction) | Historical fiction. | Domestic fiction. | Fiction.
Year: 2018
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Fiction Ega (Browse shelf) Available 113778

Anna Kerrigan, nearly twelve years old, accompanies her father to the house of Dexter Styles, a man who, she gleans, is crucial to the survival of her father and her family with the Great Depression underway. Years later, her father has disappeared and the country is at war. Anna works at the Brooklyn Naval Yard, where women are allowed to hold jobs that had always belonged to men. She becomes the first female diver, the most dangerous and exclusive of occupations, repairing the ships that will help America win the war. She is the sole provider for her mother, a farm girl who had a brief and glamorous career with the Ziegfeld Follies, and her lovely, severely disabled sister. At a nightclub, she chances to meet Dexter Styles again, and she begins to understand the complexity of her father's life, the reasons he might have vanished.--

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