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Wednesday, May 21, 2014

The Wives of Los Alamos

The Wives of Los Alamos by Tarashea Nesbit
233 Pages

The author uses an interesting method to tell the story for this book. It is almost a listing or recounting of the facts of the group of women who followed their husbands to the site of Los Alamos where the atomic bomb was invented. Nesbit uses the collective "we" to lay out the story and while at first you would think this would be off putting, eventually you are able to follow the tale of these women without the usual use of fiction writing.

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Kara KMay 21, 2014 at 7:49 PM
This sounds similar to The Buddha in the Attic. The collective "we," the women's perspective, the list style...
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edderMay 28, 2014 at 12:23 PM
I think a review of the book mentioned the Buddha in the Attic. I'm not sure I like this style and really think there could be a good story for this setting told in a more conventional form. I wonder if there is still a lot classified about the area?
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