“You are to report to Station X at Bletchley Park, Buckinghamshire, in four days time....That is all you need to know.” By the time World War II ended, hundreds of young women throughout Great Britain would receive a telegram like this one, summoning them to Bletchley Park, code name Station X, to play a vital, yet, until many years later, unsung role in defeating Nazi Germany.

C Pam Zhang, bestselling author of How Much of These Hills Is Gold, returns with the Land of Milk and Honey (Riverhead Books).Promoted as a work of dystopian fiction, Zhang’s novel may also be …