Description
An extraordinary novel inspired by the real women of Oak Ridge, Tennessee–the Manhattan Project’s “Secret City”–where thousands kept the deadliest secret of World War II.
Oklahoma, 1935. Black Sunday. From the moment a wall of black dust devours the plains and buries her world, Song Holloway’s life is marked by dislocation and loss. Even in the rural New England town she now calls home, that dark cloud continues to follow her.
Then the army asks her to take up work at a classified facility in the muddy outpost of Oak Ridge, a city that doesn’t appear on any map. Trained to test pipes, Song searches for leaks in a system no one will explain. The work is dangerous. People vanish. Yet it’s here, behind the barbed wire and watchtowers, that she finds what the dust storm stole: a place to belong and women who become her second family. And there is Hol–a gentle soldier who gives her, for the first time, peace.
Until she’s summoned. A small room. Two agents. Men with power she will never have. Song is given a command: spy on the women in your life. In a city built on secrets, keeping quiet used to be enough. Now it makes her complicit. But Song’s choices will haunt her long after she learns what flowed through those pipes.
The Silent Women is a sweeping, absorbing, and deeply human story about chosen family, moral courage, and what it costs to live with the truth. Perfect for readers of The Women of Arlington Hall, The Frozen River, and The Women.
Binding Type: Paperback
Author: Tara Lynn Masih
Published: 09/08/2026
Publisher: Storm Publishing
ISBN: 9781837005536
Pages: 392
Weight: 0.81lbs
Size: 0.97″ H x 8.00″ L x 5.25″ W
About the Author
Masih, Tara Lynn: – Tara Lynn Masih is a multi-award-winning American author of place-based historical novels and short stories, including the acclaimed, bestselling YA novel My Real Name Is Hanna. Hanna was honored as a National Jewish Book Award Finalist and won several awards, including a Julia Ward Howe Award. A member of the Historical Novel Society, she fell in love with history as a young child during a magical summer spent in London and while touring the countryside and high cliffs of Cornwall. Tara also loves small things and is known for The Rose Metal Press Field Guide to Writing Flash Fiction and for founding The Best Small Fictions. Her latest story collection, How We Disappear, won a Florida Book Award. It features a fictional biography of Dame Agatha Christie. As a bicultural author, she weaves into her writing the history of the voiceless and forgotten. Discover more about her on her website and read her behind-the-book blog, which includes fun historical tidbits about the characters and settings in her fiction along with WWII scrapbook images and letters from her maternal grandparents.
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