Radium Girls

Radium Girls

By
Cy.
Cy.
2020 • 134 pages

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15

I enjoyed the color palette. At times it was difficult to tell some of the sisters apart, but the larger story of what was happening to the women employed at the company and the time period shone through. I also enjoyed the interview with the author at the end.

French artist tells a story that was happening in the US in the 1920's, there's women in the work place, suffrage, and prohibition. The story is told through a group of women who are friends.

About halfway through the girls go to the beach and see something that at first I was unsure about the woman without an arm at Coney Island who gets stares from the ‘Radium Girls' and judgement that she shouldn't expose her ‘deformity' to children. But then I thought that it was perhaps ‘fitting of the times' and then by the end I thought that perhaps the knew how that woman felt as most of them were missing teeth, at least one of them used a wheelchair

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