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Wives of Los Alamos
Wives of Los Alamos | TaraShea Nesbit
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Winner of New Mexico-Arizona Book Awards (2014) in Fiction (historical fiction) and Best Book/New Mexico categoriesThey 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. 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. While the bomb was being invented, babies were born, friendships were forged, children grew up, and Los Alamos gradually transformed into a real community: one that was strained by the words they couldn't say out loud or in letters, and by the freedom they didn't have. But the end of the war would bring even bigger challenges, 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 testament to a remarkable group of real-life women and an exploration of a crucial, largely unconsidered aspect of one of the most monumental research projects in modern history.Mountains and Plains bestseller listDenver Post bestseller list Mid-Atlantic bestseller list
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Hestapleton
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This book was fascinating! I love fiction on topics I know nothing about, so this was naturally a winner. Told through first person plural - we and ours - the book tells the stories of the wives of Manhattan Project scientists as a collective. What would it have been like to raise your family in the desert, to not know what your husbands were doing, to fight dust every day? So illuminating. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

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charl08
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And then we noticed one day...

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charl08
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I do like a bookish reference.

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Cinfhen
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#melodiousmusicals @CrowCAH This book had plenty of spunky upbeat women & very little #sobbinwomen even though they lived in veiled secrecy with their families & husbands for three years. The book is written in first person plural making for an interesting narrative, I thought it worked really well🤓

saresmoore Me too! I liked this one a lot. 6y
emilyhaldi Sounds fascinating! 6y
CrowCAH Sounds interesting and a good opposite to sobbin‘ women! 6y
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drbethandherkindle I really liked this one too! 6y
Cinfhen It's a quick one sitting read @emilyhaldi @CrowCAH try it! I'm happy to see you enjoyed it as well @drbethandherkindle @saresmoore 💕 6y
Reviewsbylola Wow this sounds great! 6y
Mdargusch Sounds really good. I am stacking. 6y
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LibrarianJen
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On a date with my husband. Our 9 year anniversary will be on the 16th so we left the kids with the inlaws and decided to play tourist in our own city. We went to old town which is the plaza area that Albuquerque originated around. There is a local bookstore amounts the tourist traps 😀Stay tuned for my findings which include this one I got on sale for $5.95! We are now at a local brewery for some relaxation. 🍻#booksandbrews

BooksForEmpathy Yum! What brewery!? 7y
charissharpe Sounds like a perfect date 💕 7y
LibrarianJen @BooksForEmpathy Bow and Arrow Brewing Co. 7y
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LibrarianJen
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At the Los Alamos National Laboratory library with my SLA chapter today. Here are some unclassified monographs😉More to come!

Update: no photo's allowed so I took the one I had down just in case.

LukkiAnn So cool!!!! 7y
ValerieAndBooks My BIL works for LANL! 7y
LibrarianJen @ValerieAndBooks awesome! My husband works for SNL so we call LANL "that other lab" ? 7y
ValerieAndBooks lol 😂!! I'll have to ask BIL if they do the same thing for SNL! 7y
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lamaman2boys
The Wives of Los Alamos | TaraShea Nesbit

I'm really trying to like this book, but the way it's written exhausts me.

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saresmoore
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I just saw that this is a Kindle deal today. It's a fantastic read! I felt connected to their context in a way that was transporting and almost tangible. The writing is great and the characters and storylines are intriguing. I was most impressed by the unexpected way the story is woven together. Recommend!

Cinfhen This was surprisingly good! Unusual narrative but it worked so well💙📚❤️️ 7y
Jaimelire I loved it too! 7y
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