Manhattan Beach
About This Novel
When Anna Kerrigan was almost 12 years old, her father took her to Manhattan Beach to meet a man named Dexter Styles, a figure who was crucial to her father. But at that time, she had no idea how much impact the man in a black coat would have on her and her family... A few years later, her father mysteriously disappeared and the United States fell into war. Young men were sent to war, and women began to enter male occupations. After Anna left college, she worked measuring parts at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, but she didn't want to stop there. Later, by chance, Anna, who loves the sea, volunteered to sign up to become a diver and repair military ships. The job was extremely dangerous and had never been done by a woman before. One day, after finishing her work during the day, she met Dexter Styles, whom she had not seen for a long time, in a nightclub. She was determined to learn about her father's whereabouts through him and solve the mystery of her father's disappearance that had tortured her for many years... The novel panoramically shows the American society and the real life of ordinary people in the 1930s and 1940s through the joys and sorrows of the two families, Kerrigan and Styles. This novel full of film noir temperament, with delicate and poetic narration, takes us into a complex and crazy wartime world composed of gang bosses, bankers, union leaders, blue-collar workers, divers, single mothers who became pregnant out of wedlock, and war madmen.
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