Ron Charles, The Washington Post Manhattan Beach is an enthralling work of historical fiction that weaves together beautiful imagery, an immersive story, and compelling characters into a single story of family secrets and unconditional love. dares to satisfy us in a way that stories of an earlier age used to. Amor Towles, New York Times Book Review Manhattan Beach is ambitiously and deliciously plot-driven. Named One of Review Quotes A novel that deserves to join the canon of New York stories. At a nightclub, she chances to meet Dexter Styles again, and she begins to understand the complexity of her fathers life, the reasons he might have vanished- Book Synopsis NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A New York Times Notable Book Winner of the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction The daring and magnificent novel from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author. 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. She bes the first female diver, the most dangerous and exclusive of occupations, repairing the ships that will help America win the war.

Anna works at the Brooklyn Naval Yard, where women are allowed to hold jobs that had always belonged to men. Years later, her father has disappeared and the country is at war.

About the Book 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.

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