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Liking the book so far.
Dual timelines.
Each chapter opens with narrator telling who and when the chapter is about.

Two letters: A.I.
yet somehow I’m still reading/listening…

I wish I had counted how many times she says that they didn’t know what was being made at the ‘town not on any map’ because (she’s assuming you forgot the last 15 times she said it) if the enemy knew… how could we win the war, unless we had a secret city that no one knows about, even the people who live there didn’t know what was being made, they had to keep it secret so the enemy wouldn’t find out abo

Oh. My. Word!!!!
I’m wondering if the author wrote this book so people 100 years from now would know what a hard time blacks (“or negros as we were called back then”) had it.
As if, in 1978, it was so far removed that no one had a clue that blacks had to drink from separate water fountains. From what I gather in this book…that was the main prejudice against them.
Oh. My. Word.

The story feels a little like a recitation of the facts the author learned researching the backstory. The number of times we’re told that ‘Oak Ridge is not on the map’ is one example that gives the feeling of a recitation.

So far, it’s good, engaging.
It’s weird that it’s set in the past- during an era when I was a little girl. I can imagine/remember how they dressed and talked. (And no, he would not have said, “what happens in K25 stays in K25.” Author got that from a Las Vegas commercial lol)

Very interesting backstory from WWII.

“Life is a gift; wake up every day and realize that.”
Without aspiration, we don’t have the ability to seek out the best versions of ourselves.
P. 73

Something happens…when forced into a cage of infinite time.
…you’re left in a discontented and unfulfilled state… p. 67