@article{807894,
      recid = {807894},
      author = {Egan, Jennifer,},
      title = {Manhattan Beach : a novel /},
      pages = {438 pages ;},
      note = {Colored map on endpapers.},
      abstract = {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. 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.--},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/807894},
}