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The Wives of Los Alamos

December 15,
I expect that most reviews of Tarashea Nesbit's The Wives of Los Alamos will begin as this one does, by noting that the entire work is written in the first person plural. The Wives of Los Alamos doesn't contain a number of individual characters; instead, it is people by a single, plural "character," a chorus singing in unison. This plural voice is the central fact of the novel, and it shapes the reader's experience. Let me give you a quick sample from the opening:

We were European women born in Southampton and Hamburg, Western women born in California and Montana, East Coast women born in Connecticut and New York, Midwestern women born in Nebraska and Ohio, or Southern women from Mississippi or Texas, and no matter who we were we wanted nothing to do with starting all over again, and so we paused, we exhaled, and we asked, What part of the Southwest?

Reading the first chapter, I found the "We" unsettling, not knowing of whom it was comprised.

Reading the second chapter, I found the "We" exhilarating, a stylistic device that felt almost musical in the way it simultaneously documented multiple experiences.

Further in, I found it alienating

There is a contradiction underpinning the whole project of English imperialism, and Nesbit flags it perfectly.

—The New York Times

Part mystery, part love story, beautifully told and meticulously researched&#;

—Anton DiSclafani, author of THE YONAHLOSSEE RIDING CAMP FOR GIRLS

Behelddisrupts expectation to render the pulsing messy lives of those too often calcified in myth.

—USA Today

Nesbit . . . cleverly recasts pilgrim history in this deeply enjoyable novel . . .[her] lush prose adds texture to stories of the colony&#;s women, and her deep immersion in primary sources adds complexity to the historical record.

—Publishers Weekly, starred review

A compelling exploration of friendship, character and the personal and political motivations that determine whose stories get told and whose voices are silenced.

—Los Angeles Times, Books to Read to Study the Divided Nation

 

A richly complex and sorrowful work&#;In this powerful work, Nesbit renders the past without muting its gravity.

—The Star-Tribune

 

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TaraShea Nesbit is a novelist, nonfiction writer, and associate professor at Miami Universi

About the Author

TaraShea&#;s bestselling first novel, The Wives of Los Alamos, about the making of the atomic bomb from the wives&#; perspective, was a finalist for the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize, a New York Times Book Review Editors&#; Choice, a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Selection, an Indies Choice Debut Pick, an Amazon Best Book of the Month, and winner of two New Mexico-Arizona Book Awards.

TaraShea Nesbit&#;s second novel, Beheld, is a New York Times Notable Book of the Year, a Publishers WeeklyBest Fiction Book of , longlisted for the Massachusetts Book Award, a finalist for the Ohioana Book Award, a New York Times Book Review Editors&#; Choice, an Indies Next Pick. Read an interview with her here and here.

Her writing has been featured in Granta, Lit Hub, The Guardian, Ninth Letter, Salon, Fourth Genre, Quarterly West, The Collagist,  Iowa Review, Necessary Fiction, The Los Angeles Review of Books Fiction Issue, and elsewhere. She is an associate professor of creative writing at Miami University and lives in Cincinnati with her family.

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TaraShea Nesbit was born in Dayton, Ohio, one of the lesser-known secret Manhattan Project locations during WWII. She studied creative writing at Ohio State University, received her MFA from Washington University in St. Louis, and is currently pursuing a PhD from the University of Denver. Her work The Iowa Review, Quarterly West, The Collagist, and Hayden's Ferry Review, among other publications. She is the nonfiction editor at Better: Culture & Lit and teaches at the University of Denver. She lives in Colorado with her family.

THE WIVES OF LOS ALAMOS is a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers Selection, an Indies Introduce Debut Authors pick, and received starred reviews from Publishers Weekly and Booklist.
 


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