The Wives of Los Alamos TaraShea Nesbit WWII historical fiction.

The Wives of Los Alamos is a novel about one of the strangest and most monumental research projects in modern history, and a testament to a remarkable group of women who carved out a life for themselves, in spite of the chaos of the war and the shroud of intense secrecy. They came from Berkeley, Cambridge, Paris, London, Chicago—and arrived in New Mexico ready for adventure. But hope quickly turned to hardship as they adapted to a rugged military town where everything was a secret, including what their husbands were doing at the lab. They lived in barely finished houses in a town of barbed wire, all for the benefit of a project that didn’t exist. 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 forged, children grew up, and Los Alamos gradually transformed from an abandoned school into a community: strained by the words they couldn’t say out loud, the letters they couldn’t send home, the freedom they didn’t have. But the end of the war would bring even bigger challenges to the people of Los Alamos, as the scientists and their families struggled with the burden of their contribution to the most destructive force in the history of mankind. Written in First Person Plural. Hardback, dust cover. Used. I ship the same day or next business day.