Description
In the remote New Mexico desert during World War II, a community of women follows their husbands to a secret government facility whose purpose they are forbidden to know. As they build homes, friendships, and routines amid strict secrecy and isolation, they confront the uneasy divide between domestic life and world-changing scientific work. Told in a distinctive collective “we” voice, the novel explores marriage, motherhood, friendship, ambition, and the moral costs of wartime discovery. It offers an intimate, atmospheric portrait of the women who lived on the periphery of one of history’s most consequential—and troubling—projects.
Available Editions
paperback
Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Published Jan 1, 2014
240 pages
ISBN: 9781620405048
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Details
First Published
2014
Language
eng
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for The Wives of Los Alamos by TaraShea Nesbit.