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A girl's guide to missiles growing up in America's secret desert

✍ Scribed by Piper, Karen Lynnea

Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group; Viking [2018
Year: 2018
Tongue: en-US
Weight: 1 MB
Category: Fiction
City: New York, New York
ISBN: 0735220387

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✦ Synopsis

A surreal and poignant coming of age on a secretive missile facility, and "an incredible view of...life in a town built for war." --Booklist
The China Lake missile range is located in a huge stretch of the Mojave Desert, about the size of the state of Delaware. It was created during the Second World War, and has always been shrouded in secrecy. But people who make missiles and other weapons are regular working people, with domestic routines and everyday dilemmas, and four of them were Karen Piper's parents, her sister, and--when she needed summer jobs--herself. Her dad designed the Sidewinder, which was ultimately used catastrophically in Vietnam. When her mom got tired of being a stay-at-home mom, she went to work on the Tomahawk. Once, when a missile nose needed to be taken offsite for final testing, her mother loaded it into the trunk of the family car, and set off down a Los Angeles freeway. Traffic was heavy, and so she stopped off at the mall,...

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Biography

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