Aprils bog / My April book

Planen holder endnu - jeg har også læst en hel bog i april måned. Denne her har jeg lånt af min søster. Den kom med varme anbefalinger, og den var sandelig også god!
Den er godt skrevet og beskriver de kvinder den handler om, så man virkelig opfatter dem som personer. Den er virkelig rystende og spændende, og så har den dejligt korte kapitler, så man hele tiden lige tænker at man da kan nuppe et til....
Den handler om radium industrien i USA. Hvordan unge, uskyldige piger blev sat til at arbejde med radium uden at de fik nogen form for beskyttelse mod radioaktivitet. Selv om de bare arbejdede med små mængder når de malede visere på ure, var det nok til at sætte sig i deres knogler og fortsætte strålingen indefra. Desuden handler den om, hvordan firmaerne kæmpede imod med arme og ben for at undgå at give disse kvinder erstatning, da de begyndte at dø som fluer. Det var utroligt svært bare at få anerkendt det som en arbejdsskade, og selv efter det var anerkendt, var det et problem næsten 40 år efter - helt op i 70'erne.
Jeg ved ikke, om den nogensinde bliver oversat til dansk. Men hvis du kan læse engelsk, så er det bare at køre på. Den er SÅ god!

The plan holds - I also read an entire book during April. This one, my sister lend me. It came with her warmest recommendations, and it really is good!
It is well written, and it describes the women it's about in a way to make you really see them as persons. It is shocking and exciting, and it even has nice, short chapters, making you think that you have time to read another one.....
It is about the radium industry in the US. How young, innocent girls came to work with radium, without offering them any kind of protection from the radioactivity. Although they worked with very small amounts, painting the dials on watches, it was enough to fasten in their bones, continuing the radiation from the inside. It is also about the firms fighting like crazy against offering any kind of compensation when the women started dying. It was incredibly hard to just get it recognized as work damage, and even after this was acknowledged, it continued being a problem almost 40 years later - all the way into the 70'es.
If you have the chance - please read this. It is really good!