Jennie Fields received an MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop and is the author of the novels Lily Beach, Crossing Brooklyn Ferry,The Middle Ages,and The Age of Desire. A Chicago native, Fields was inspired by her own mother's work as a University of Chicago-trained biochemist in the 1950s. Fields now lives with her husband in Nashville, Tennessee.

WELL-CONNECTED AUTHOR: Jennie Fields is a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop and good friends with Ann Patchett, who blurbed this book and supported its hardcover publication. We expect continued support for the paperback.

ON-TREND HISTORICAL READ, NOW IN AUDIENCE PREFERRED FORMAT: This book is in the vein of The Only Woman in the Room and The Lost Girls of Paris: beautiful historical fiction featuring a woman in a man's world that also has the selling real-world history and feminist bent of nonfiction hits like The Girls of Atomic City and Fly Girls. This paperback format is the perfect way to reach those paperback original readers we didn't catch with the hardcover.

PANDEMIC HC PUBLICATION, PB OPPORTUNITY: This hardcover fared better than many published during the pandemic. The good will and reader enthusiasm from the hardcover publication make this an excellent paperback opportunity.

REAL HISTORY THAT APPEALS TO BOOK CLUB AUDIENCE: The Manhattan Project is a part of U.S. history that is perennially popular in fiction, and in book club reads. Fields has called in to numerous book clubs around the country and is thrilled to be available to clubs going forward.