The Green Glass Sea by Ellen Klages5/30/2023 ![]() Gordon and the other women started hugging each other, smiling and talking. ![]() There was silence for a minute after the light faded, then Mrs. It lit up the sky for a moment, then disappeared, like the fireworks they'd had in May when the war in Europe ended. Dewey thought it might be the sun coming up, except it came from the wrong direction. Right before sunrise there was a bright light. ![]() They carried blankets and sandwiches and thermoses of coffee out to a place on the edge of the mesa where they had a clear view of the southern horizon and sat in the still early darkness, smoking and waiting. Gordon had shooed the girls to bed early, then woke them before dawn for a hike with some of the other wives, many of whom also had jobs and titles other than Mrs. Dewey's mom hadn't been around since she was a baby. They were both scientists, like Papa, and their daughter Suze was about the same age as Dewey. When he was sent to Washington, she came to live with the Gordons. Dewey Kerrigan noticed that a lot of the usual faces were missing from the dining hall at the Los Alamos lodge, and everyone seemed tense, even more tense than usual.ĭewey and her father had come to the Hill two years before, when she was eight. ![]() Gordon was gone for the first two weeks in July. ![]()
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