The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women by Kate Moore
504 Pages
Publisher: Sourcebooks (Non-fiction), Sourcebooks
Release Date: May 2, 2017
Nonfiction (Adult), History, Radium Poisoning, Trials
This narrative covers the lives of several women that worked at two different radium factories. Their jobs consisted of using radium to paint luminous dials for watches and military instruments. Without their knowledge that the radium was poisonous, they would put the tip of the brush in their mouth to get the bristles into a point before dipping it into the radium powder and painting. They would leave the facility literally covered in radium dust.
The book is extremely well researched and written. By the time I finished the book, I felt like I knew all the women. My heart goes out to all the Radium Girls and their families. They certainly made an important moment in time for the world. Without them speaking out about the industrial poisoning, there could have been other future events with the introduction of nuclear technology. I really enjoyed reading this book and highly recommend it to everyone.
