THE GREEN GLASS SEA
It is 1943, and 11-year-old Dewey Kerrigan is on a train to New Mexico, where she will live with her mathematician father. She doesn't know where in New Mexico, exactly; the corporal who took her to the station can't tell her. The war is going on, and so many things are secret.
Soon she arrives at a town that-officially-doesn't exist. It is called Los Alamos, and it is abuzz with activity, as famous scientists and mathematicians from all over America and Europe--Dewey's father among them--work on the biggest secret of all, something everyone only calls "the gadget.Over the next few years, Dewey gets to know those scientists, starts working on her own mechanical projects, and locks horns with Suze Gordon, a budding artist who is as much of a misfit as she is.
None of them--not J. Robert Oppenheimer, the director of the Manhattan Project; not the mathematicians and scientists; and least of all, Dewey and Suze--know how much "the gadget" is about to change their lives.
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