Reviewed by Claire Hamner Matturro The Silent Women (Storm Publishing 2026) by Tara Lynn Masih is a profound and extraordinary historical novel. Brilliantly researched and written, the book tells an engrossing and emotionally resonant story of American women at a dangerous, difficult time in the life of the country—WWII. With an exemplary blend of historical […]
Read of the Month: “The Silent Women” by Tara Lynn Masih
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Claire Hamner Matturro interviews Tara Lynn Masih, author of “The Silent Women”

Summary: The Silent Women is 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 […]
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