A review by librarianinthewoods
The Wives of Los Alamos by TaraShea Nesbit

4.0

I've never read a book written in the first person plural, a collective "we," but it was an interesting decision by the author. As Gail Godwin hailed in her review, the author's "brave and brilliant choice of point of view for these women living inside their earth-shattering secret crucible brings home to us in the fullest way possible that our personal story is never just ours." While the story is about these wives of scientist in Los Alamos during WWII who invented the nuclear bomb, in the end I felt this first person plural was more universal in depicting mothers. I enjoyed this book and the way it's written although it might have been better with some personal narrative in the mix?