Thank you to my family, both here and gone. Thank you, Dr. Hall and the infinite empathy of the maternity ward night shift at Swedish.
Thank you to the late Elspeth Pope for seeing me fit for residency at Hypatia-in-the-Woods when I had just started this project, and thanks to the University of Washington in Tacoma for a Cascadia home. Thank you to the University of Denver and Washington University in St. Louis, for the time to write and the community to write within.
Thank you to my teachers, who are my friends, and my friends, who are my teachers: Shena McAuliffe, Jesse McCaughey, Jen Denrow, Sara Witt, Yanara Friedland, Poupeh Missaghi, Joe Lennon, Sarah Vap and her Salish Sea Workshop, Todd Fredson, Eliana Schonberg, Rachel Sullivan Adams, Molly Langmuir, Cynda Collins Arsenault, Brigid McAuliffe, Mary Jo Bang, Kathryn Davis, Laird Hunt, Eleni Sikelianos, Selah Saterstrom, Adam Rovner, and Brian Kitely.
Thank you to my husband, Jerritt Collord.
A Note on the Author
TaraShea Nesbit was born in Dayton, Ohio, one of the lesser-known Manhattan Project locations. Her writing has been featured in the Iowa Review, Quarterly West, Hayden’s Ferry Review, and other literary journals. She teaches creative writing and literature at the University of Denver and is the nonfiction editor of Better: Culture & Lit. A graduate of the M.F.A. program at Washington University in St. Louis, TaraShea is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in literature and creative writing at the University of Denver.
Copyright
Copyright © 2014 by TaraShea Nesbit
Published by Bloomsbury USA, New York
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LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA
Nesbit, TaraShea.
The Wives of Los Alamos : a novel / TaraShea Nesbit. — First U.S. Edition.
pages cm
eISBN 978-1-62040-505-5
1. Married women—New Mexico—Los Alamos—Fiction. 2. World War, 1939–1945—New Mexico—Los Alamos—Fiction. 3. Los Alamos (N.M.)—Fiction. 4. Deception (Military science)—History—20th century—Fiction. 5. Atomic bomb—Fiction. I. Title.
PS3614.E467W58 2014
813’.6—dc23
2013036239
First U.S. Edition 2014
This electronic edition published in February 2014
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