Manhattan Beach by Jennifer Egan
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From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of A Visit from the Goon Squad comes a sweeping historical novel set in Depression-era and wartime New York, where a young woman’s courage transforms her life on the Brooklyn Navy Yard.
Nearly twelve years old, Anna Kerrigan accompanies her father to visit Dexter Styles, a Brooklyn gangster whose power, she senses, is essential to her family’s survival. Anna is mesmerized by the sea beyond Dexter’s house—and by the charged, unspoken mystery between the two men.
Years later: America is at war, and Anna’s father has vanished. Now working at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, Anna steps into a world newly opened to women as men ship off to fight. She becomes the first female diver—entering the most dangerous and elite of professions—repairing the massive warships that will help carry the nation to victory.
When Anna encounters Dexter Styles again in a smoky nightclub, long-buried truths begin to surface. As she pieces together her father’s secret life, Anna must reckon with love, loyalty, and the cost of survival in a city—and a world—on the brink of change.
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