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Title: Radium Halos, A novel about the Radium Dial Painters
Author: Shelley Stout
ISBN-10: 1448696224
ISBN-13: 978-1448696222
Price: $9.99 (Trade paperback), $4.99 (Kindle)
Publisher: Librifiles Publishing
www.Librifiles.com


RADIUM HALOS is historical fiction based on the true events of the Radium Dial painters, a group of female factory workers who, in the early 1920s, contracted radiation poisoning from painting luminous watch and clock dials with radium paint. Our narrator is Helen Waterman, a 65-year-old mental patient who worked at the factory when she was 16. She tells us her story
through flashbacks, slowly revealing her past, the loved ones she’s lost, and the dangerous secrets she’s kept all these years. The foreword is by Leonard Grossman, son of the attorney for the dial painters. Grossman says, "Sometimes fiction can speak truth in ways that the bare facts cannot. Ms.
Stout has found a unique voice in which to tell the tragic story of the radium dial workers and at the same time to say much about life in this country. The story goes beyond the radium dial case and reflects much about our attitudes toward work, women, mental illness and aging. Along the way it
speaks of fear and loyalty and truth itself."
Available at Amazon-- trade paperback or Kindle.