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Nesbit, Tarashea
Subjects
Married women -- New Mexico -- Los Alamos -- Fiction.
World War, 1939-1945 -- New Mexico -- Los Alamos -- Fiction.
Deception (Military science) -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction.
Atomic bomb -- Fiction.
Los Alamos (N.M.) -- Fiction.
Historical fiction.
Suspense fiction.
War stories.
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The wives of
Los
Alamos
: a novel / TaraShea Nesbit.
by
Nesbit, Tarashea
Subjects
Married
women
--
New
Mexico
--
Los
Alamos
--
Fiction
.
World War, 1939-1945
--
New
Mexico
--
Los
Alamos
--
Fiction
.
Deception (Military science)
--
History
--
20th century
--
Fiction
.
Atomic bomb
--
Fiction
.
Los
Alamos
(N.M.)
--
Fiction
.
Historical
fiction
.
Suspense
fiction
.
War stories.
Publisher Info:
New
York : Bloomsbury, 2014.
Edition:
First U.S. Edition.
Description:
233 pages ; 22 cm
RDA Types:
text
unmediated
volume
ISBN:
9781620405031 (hbk.)
1620405032 (hbk.)
Format Book:
Summary:
"Their average age was twenty-five. They came from Berkeley, Cambridge, Paris, London, Chicago--and arrived in
New
Mexico
ready for adventure, or at least resigned to it. But hope quickly turned to hardship as they were forced to adapt to a rugged military town where everything was a secret, including what their husbands were doing at the lab. They lived in barely finished houses with P.O. box addresses in a town wreathed with barbed wire, all for the benefit of a project that didn't exist as far as the public knew. Though they were strangers, they joined together--adapting to a landscape as fierce as it was absorbing, full of the banalities of everyday life and the drama of scientific discovery. And while the bomb was being invented, babies were born, friendships were forged, children grew up, and
Los
Alamos
gradually transformed from an abandoned school on a hill into a real community: one that was strained by the words they couldn't say out loud, the letters they couldn't send home, the freedom they didn't have. But the end of the war would bring even bigger challenges to the people of
Los
Alamos
, as the scientists and their families struggled with the burden of their contribution to the most destructive force in the history of mankind.The Wives of
Los
Alamos
is a novel that sheds light onto one of the strangest and most monumental research projects in modern history. It's a testament to a remarkable group of
women
who carved out a life for themselves, in spite of the chaos of the war and the shroud of intense secrecy"
--
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