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by Ciera Horton McElroy
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Availability:In StockContributor:Ciera Horton McElroyPublish date:10/7/2025Pages:272
Language:EnglishPublisher:BlairISBN-13:9781958888681ISBN-10:1958888680UPC:9781958888681Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Family Life, Nature & the Environment, HistoricalSize:8.35 x 5.43 x 1.02 inchesWeight:0.6614Product ID:SCYJG8V6WV

2023 VCU Cabell First Novelist Award Long List

2023 Book of the Year, Southern Literary Review

Named a 2023 Great Group read, Women's National Book Association

A South Carolina family endures one life-shattering day in 1961 in a town that lies in the shadow of a nuclear bomb plant.

It's November 1, 1961, in a small town in South Carolina, and nuclear war is coming. Ten-year-old Wilson Porter believes this with every fiber of his being. He prowls his neighborhood for Communists and studies fallout pamphlets and the habits of his father, a scientist at the nuclear plant in town.

Meanwhile, his mother Nellie covertly joins an anti-nuclear movement led by angry housewives--and his father, Dean, must decide what to do with the damning secrets he's uncovered at the nuclear plant. When tragedy strikes, the Porter family must learn to confront their fears--of the world and of each other.

Language:EnglishPublisher:BlairISBN-13:9781958888681ISBN-10:1958888680UPC:9781958888681Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Family Life, Nature & the Environment, HistoricalSize:8.35 x 5.43 x 1.02 inchesWeight:0.6614Product ID:SCYJG8V6WV
Ciera Horton McElroy is the author of Atomic Family, named a 2023 Great Group Read by the Women's National Book Association and short-listed for the VCU Cabell First Novelist Award. She lives in the Midwest, where she writes and runs a boutique film marketing agency.
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