A review by panda8882
The Wives of Los Alamos by TaraShea Nesbit

4.0

This book was so different from anything else I've read recently. I don't even know the name for the narrative format - first person but we rather than I, so it is attempting to tell the story from the perspective of all of the wives, while accounting for the fact that their experiences were the same but different. It ended up making for a less story driven, more poetic read. I also loved that it got me thinking about this group of women who I had never really thought about before - women whose wives were tasked with building the first atomic bomb, though they didn't know that's what they were doing. It captures their point of view perfectly - isolated, trusting, frustrated, regretful, all of it. Really interesting read. Considering it for book club.