Ian’s Reviews > Hidden Figures: The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race > Status Update

So far, the book fails in all the ways the movie succeeds: it's dry, didactic, full of purple prose, and jumps so much all over the place that often you're not sure which person the author is talking about, or even what time period we're in.
Shetterly should be praised for collecting the data and the stories of these women, but she ain't really good at putting it down into a cohesive narrative.