02452cam a2200505 i 4500 363114910 TxAuBib 20181109120000.0 180710t20182017||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2017486181 9781476716749 paperback 1476716749 paperback 9781476716732 1476716730 TxAuBib rda Egan, Jennifer. Manhattan Beach [(PB)] : a novel / Jennifer Egan. First Scribner trade paperback edition. New York : Scribner, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc., 2018. ©2017. 438 pages ; 21 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier 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.-- Adapted from book jacket. 20181109. World War (1939-1945.) 1939-1945. Young women New York (State) New York Fiction. World War, 1939-1945 United States Fiction. Women divers Fiction. Irish Americans Fiction. Organized crime New York (State) New York Fiction. Absentee fathers Fiction. Missing persons Fiction. Absentee fathers. Irish Americans. Missing persons. Organized crime. Women divers. Young women. New York (State) New York. United States. Fiction.