01970cam a2200325 4500 546487070 TxAuBib 20180716120000.0 170623s2017||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2017029043 9781476716732 hardcover 1476716730 hardcover (OCoLC)975110465 DLC eng rda DLC YDX BDX OCLCO OCLCF VTL TxAuBib Egan, Jennifer. Manhattan Beach : a novel / Jennifer Egan. First Scribner hardcover edition. New York : Scribner, 2017. 438 pages : color map ; 24 cm. Map on endpapers. "Opens in Brooklyn during the Great Depression. 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. Years later, her father has disappeared and the country is at war. Anna works at the Brooklyn Naval Yard, where women are allowed to hold jobs that had always belonged to men. She becomes the first female diver, the most dangerous and exclusive of occupations, repairing the ships that will help America win the war. 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. At a nightclub, she chances to meet Dexter Styles again, and she begins to understand the complexity of her father's life, the reasons he might have vanished."-- 20180716. Young women New York (State) New York Fiction. World War, 1939-1945 United States Fiction. Domestic fiction. Historical fiction. Thrillers (Fiction.) TXGAI