Egan, Jennifer
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.--