When she saw the ocean for the first time, Lydia spoke intelligibly for the first time in years. They met again later at the naval yard, and Dexter agreed to drive Anna and her younger disabled sister Lydia to the beach. Sensing that Dexter might know something about what happened to her father, Anna introduced herself to him as Anna Feeney, rather than Kerrigan. He and Anna met at one of his nightclubs, Moonshine, one evening, and although Anna remembered him from the trip with her father when she was a girl, Dexter did not recognize her. Dexter, we learn, was a boss in an organized criminal syndicate and owned a substantial number of nightclubs. Her father had disappeared without a trace five years earlier. With so many American men fighting overseas, Anna was among the first wave of women to hold jobs at the Brooklyn Naval Yard. Eleven-year-old Anna Kerrigan accompanied her father, a union lackey named Eddie Kerrigan, to a business meeting at the Manhattan Beach home of a man named Dexter Styles - a meeting that proved to be fateful for all three characters.Įight years later, World War II was on. The novel opens in New York City in 1934, five years after the American stock market crash. The following version of this book was used to create this study guide: Egan, Jennifer.
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