A review by jeffrey_rid
The Cassandra by Sharma Shields

5.0

The Cassandra begins as a great imagining of its narrator, Mildred, as an unfortunate prophetess in Eastern Washington. She lands a job at the Hanford project, where we see a different side of the war. As the atomic bomb is developed, the brutality of the device takes over the whole narrative, making it very uncomfortable to read in the second half, but that discomfort is purposeful. Shields demands that we face widespread, anonymous destruction on an individual, personal level.

I began reading this book looking for loving and accurate descriptions of Eastern Washington. It delivered that, and so much more.