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Dec 15, 2023posie12 rated this title 3.5 out of 5 stars
So much complaining, most American housewives didn't even have one maid. With college degrees and physicist husbands these women bitched, boozed and gossiped. Then they discovered the weapons of mass destruction .
Feb 25, 2020lmflynn rated this title 0.5 out of 5 stars
A great read if you enjoy history. While this is fiction, much of it is based on very real events, real people, & real locations during WW II. For her first novel published in 2014, author Tarashea Nesbit is amazing.
Dec 27, 2018
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Sep 14, 2018CMaxted rated this title 0.5 out of 5 stars
Couldn't get into the community voice!
Dec 13, 2016miaone rated this title 2.5 out of 5 stars
Way too general. Makes women look like empty-headed nitwits.
Apr 11, 2016Jvalverde rated this title 3 out of 5 stars
The last part of the book where the wives reflected upon the implications of the atomic bomb was the best.
Apr 06, 2016scotluvr rated this title 3.5 out of 5 stars
I thought I would not like the community voice style that this author used. But found myself caught up in the descriptions of the lives the these women and their families, and found it very moving.
May 25, 2015
I want to know more about the wives of Los Alamos. so interesting.
Jan 26, 2015kw0724 rated this title 3 out of 5 stars
I enjoyed learning about this time and place, but did not care for the list format, which I found hard to follow at times and less enjoyable than a traditional fictional story format.
madison382
Oct 12, 2014madison382 rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
The writer did an excellent job with this book. Very thought provoking.
Sep 02, 2014ontherideau rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
Chilling on many levels but it's a story we should know
Jul 29, 2014
Loved this book for so many reasons. Firstly, it is fiction but it isn’t – the wives of Los Alamos did exist and it was there in New Mexico where specialized scientists gathered from across America to work on a war time project in the…
LaughingOne
Jul 24, 2014LaughingOne rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
When I was six (1955) my family moved to Santa Fe, New Mexico. Los Alamos was still the secret city, but not as secret as during the time of this novel. In the mid 1940s scientists were hand-picked to move to the secret city to work on a…
Cdnbookworm
May 12, 2014Cdnbookworm rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
This novel has a very different structure. Nesbit did a fair bit of research on Los Alamos and the women who lived there with their scientist husbands, and came up with an approach that spoke to all the women, spoke from a first person…
BCD2013
May 06, 2014
They came from across the country, unsure of where they were going and why, the wives of the men who worked on a secret project at Los Alamos during WWII. The narrator is all of them, as the entire story unfolds from the point of view of…
Mar 30, 2014seaworld rated this title 5 out of 5 stars
The mixture of fact and fiction makes this book an interesting read.