Debut author Nesbit has written a novel centered on the women who traveled to New Mexico during World War II for their husbands' work and struggled to be content in a town where few things – and particularly not what their husbands were doing for the government – could be talked about openly. Later, all were forced to deal with the legacy of the town's scientific achievements as the world reacted to the nuclear bomb. Nelson says the book opened up this part of history for her. "I never thought about [the nuclear bomb] beyond [Robert] Oppenheimer," she says.
