Radiance

This lovely book Radiance by Shaena Lambert is a novel about Keiko, an 18 year old Hiroshima victim brought to the USA for plastic surgery in 1952 and to act as a symbol against further nuclear weapons being developed. She stays with a couple in an "ordinary" American suburb and they become very fond of her. However, she is manipulated by the group that brought her to America, forcing her to relive the horrors of the bomb. How will this affect her? This is a story of a time that was very frightening and the politics of paranoia prevailed. Highly recommended. 41/2/5