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A review by wildflower37
The Wives of Los Alamos by TaraShea Nesbit
3.0
I was intrigued to read this book as I had visited Los Alamos and the museum told a story of a town that pulled together, created a unique society, and contributed to American History. This book did not discredit that museum storyline, but deepened it and showed a little bit more of the challenges and the concerns of the wives and eventually the husbands involved in building The Gadget.
I was also intrigued by the use of the "we" voice. It originally drew me in, showed me the similarities and differences in the wives. But over the course of the book I found it feeling more like an ethnography than a novel; I couldn't get close enough to the characters. A good read, but different.
I was also intrigued by the use of the "we" voice. It originally drew me in, showed me the similarities and differences in the wives. But over the course of the book I found it feeling more like an ethnography than a novel; I couldn't get close enough to the characters. A good read, but different.