TaraShea Nesbit's The Wives of Los Alamos is an emotionally charged debut told in the collective voices of the wives of the team of scientists who created the atom bomb that traces their struggles to adapt and raise children in a rugged military town where everything their husbands are doing is an intense secret.
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.
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.
"That this novel about the lives of women whose husbands worked at Los Alamos during WWII achieves with no real plot and no real main character is astounding. . . Amazingly, the wives emerge with strong, individual personalities, and the reader feels immersed in a very real world. . ." (Booklist Review - Starred review)
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