Manhattan Beach

A widely acclaimed author (Pulitzer Prize, National Book Critics Circle Award) turns her gaze to the US in the Thirties (Depression, Prohibition, gangsters) and Forties (WWII, Brooklyn Naval Yard, the Merchant Marine's important and dangerous role, and the sudden emergence of women as a vital part of the war effort.)
Eleven-year-old Anna Kerrigan is brave and clever beyond her years, ...