from SquirrelHead

What an amazing story. The book was very detailed and while it didn't exactly drag at places, it was slow sometimes. The movie was excellent and did a good job of combining facts and took few liberties with actual scenarios. (In my opinion) An accuracy portrayed in the movie, from the book, was K...

from strandbooks

I really wish I had read this before the movie. It is still worth reading for all the details that didn't fit in the film. Shetterly tells the story in the same style as Boys in the Boat and Girls of Atomic City where it has multiple characters coming in and out of the story. Although I think her...

from rivkat

As you might expect, this book plays out over a substantially longer period than the film based on it, which focuses on the space race. Even before that, black female mathematicians had a place at Langley, and navigated that place and its boundaries in various professionalized ways, usually by pa...

from dougcornelius

The story is a compelling look at American culture. We were working to put men on the moon while there were still separate bathrooms for blacks and whites in the NASA offices. By "we", I mean the black women at the center of the stories in the book. They were all brilliant mathematicians. While t...

from bibliovermis

A well-written history of the black women behind the visible men of NASA, their lives and contributions to American progress, and a clear case for the ways that structural racism and segregation has held that progress back.