In the bestselling culture of Hidden Figures and The better halves of Los Alamos, comes this riveting novel of the typical those who labored at the ny undertaking in the course of global battle II.

“What you spot right here, what you listen the following, what you do the following, allow it remain here.”

In November 1944, eighteen-year-old June Walker forums an unmarked bus, destined for a urban that doesn’t formally exist. Oak Ridge, Tennessee has sprung up in an issue of months—a city of trailers and segregated homes, 24-hour cafeterias, and incessant protection assessments. There, June joins hundreds of thousands of alternative younger women working substantial machines whose function is rarely defined. They recognize they're assisting to win the warfare, yet needs to ask no questions and demonstrate not anything to outsiders.

The ladies spend their evenings socializing and flirting with squaddies, scientists, and workmen at dances and flicks, bowling alleys and canteens. June longs to grasp extra approximately their top-secret task and starts off an affair with Sam Cantor, the younger Jewish physicist from big apple who oversees the lab the place she works and is aware the top objective in basic terms too good, whereas her attractive roommate Cici is on her personal undertaking: to discover a prosperous husband and get away her sharecropper roots. throughout city, African-American building employee Joe Brewer is aware not anything of the government’s plans, basically that his new activity can pay adequate to make it worthy leaving his family members in the back of, at the least for now. yet a breach in protection will intertwine his destiny with June’s look for solutions.

When the bombing of Hiroshima brings the reality approximately Oak Ridge into devastating concentration, June needs to confront her beliefs approximately loyalty, patriotism, and battle itself.

"The Atomic urban Girls is an engaging and compelling novel a couple of little-known piece of WWII history."—Maggie Leffler, overseas bestselling writer (Globe and Mail) of The secrets and techniques of Flight