![]() Dewey seems comfortable with her own oddness (she's small for her age, slightly lame, and loves inventing mechanical gizmos) and serves as something of an example to another girl, Suze, who has been trying desperately to fit in. Klages evokes both the big-sky landscape of the Southwest and a community where "everything is secret" with inviting ease and the right details, focusing particularly on the society of the children who live there. It's 1943, and Dewey's dad is working at Los Alamos - "the Hill" - with hundreds of other scientists and their families. ![]() Louis to New Mexico, where she will rejoin her often-absent mathematician father. Writing from the points of view of two displaced children, she successfully recreates life at Los Alamos Camp, where scientists and mathematicians converge with their families to construct and test the first nuclear bomb." -Publishers Weekly, starred review "Dewey, ten, embarks alone on a mysterious train trip from her grandmother's home in St. ![]() ![]() "Klages makes an impressive debut with an ambitious, meticulously researched novel set during WWII. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |