TY  - BOOK
AB  - 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.--
AU  - Egan, Jennifer,
CN  - PS3555.G292
CN  - PS3555.G292
ET  - First Scribner hardcover edition.
ID  - 807894
KW  - Young women
KW  - World War, 1939-1945
KW  - Women divers
KW  - Irish Americans
KW  - Organized crime
KW  - Absentee fathers
KW  - Missing persons
N1  - Colored map on endpapers.
N2  - 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.--
SN  - 9781476716732
SN  - 1476716730
SN  - 9781501183775
SN  - 150118377X
T1  - Manhattan Beach :a novel /
TI  - Manhattan Beach :a novel /
ER  -