Atomic Family -- Ciera Horton McElroy, Paperback
Atomic Family -- Ciera Horton McElroy, Paperback
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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.
Author: Ciera Horton McElroy
Publisher: Blair
Published: 10/07/2025
Pages: 272
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.66lbs
Size: 8.35h x 5.43w x 1.02d
ISBN: 9781958888681
About the Author
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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