Dee's Reviews > Hidden Figures

I've been off non-fiction for a while, unable to find a way to fit it into my schedule, but this book was a solid reminder of how fascinating and invigorating it is to read great non-fiction. Centrally about the black women who assisted the war- and space-race-driven rise of American aeronautics, the book was also an amazing snapshot of the incredible social stresses in the US - especially in Virginia - in the middle of the twentieth century. That's the stuff I found most fascinating - the myriad overlaid tensions of legality and social acceptability and compromise and challenge around things like segregation, "talent", and opportunity (equal or otherwise).