05333cam a2200769 4500 569556132 TxAuBib 20220702120000.0 ||||||s2018||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9780812995671 0812995678 B074656PYS Amazon 02ae12e9-b2aa-42e7-8fc2-158540974d30 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 3565786 OverDrive (Product ID) 232351 232351 232351 TxAuBib Bloom, Amy. White Houses [Libby] : A Novel. Random House Publishing Group, 2018. lesbian fiction. World War II. Friendship. literary fiction. World War Two. Historical. FDR. mother. mothers. Franklin Delano Roosevelt. love. ww2. women. Historical Fiction. Women's Fiction. Gay. LGBTQ. the great depression. World War 2. Eleanor Roosevelt. LGBT. Lesbian. lesbian novels. historical literary fiction. historical novels. biographical historical fiction. mothers day. world war 2 books. ww2 books. mothers day gifts. historical fiction books. lgbt books. world war 2 historical fiction. eleanor roosevelt books. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 2734kB. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read, Filesize: 1652kB. Fiction. Literature. Historical Fiction. HTML:For readers of The Paris Wife and The Swans of Fifth Avenue comes a “sensuous, captivating account of a forbidden affair between two women” (People)—Eleanor Roosevelt and “first friend” Lorena Hickok. NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY Financial Times • San Francisco Chronicle • New York Public Library • Refinery29 • Real Simple Lorena Hickok meets Eleanor Roosevelt in 1932 while reporting on Franklin Roosevelt’s first presidential campaign. Having grown up worse than poor in South Dakota and reinvented herself as the most prominent woman reporter in America, “Hick,” as she’s known to her friends and admirers, is not quite instantly charmed by the idealistic, patrician Eleanor. But then, as her connection with the future first lady deepens into intimacy, what begins as a powerful passion matures into a lasting love, and a life that Hick never expected to have. She moves into the White House, where her status as “first friend” is an open secret, as are FDR’s own lovers. After she takes a job in the Roosevelt administration, promoting and protecting both Roosevelts, she comes to know Franklin not only as a great president but as a complicated rival and an irresistible friend, capable of changing lives even after his death. Through it all, even as Hick’s bond with Eleanor is tested by forces both extraordinary and common, and as she grows as a woman and a writer, she never loses sight of the love of her life.  From Washington, D.C. to Hyde Park, from a little white house on Long Island to an apartment on Manhattan’s Washington Square, Amy Bloom’s new novel moves elegantly through fascinating places and times, written in compelling prose and with emotional depth, wit, and acuity. Praise for White Houses “Amy Bloom brings an untold slice of history so dazzlingly and devastatingly to life, it took my breath away.”—Paula McLain, author of The Paris Wife “Vivid and tender . . . Bloom—interweaving fact and fancy—lavishes attention on [Hickok], bringing Hick, the novel’s narrator and true subject, to radiant life.”—O: The Oprah Magazine “Radiant . . . an indelible love story, one propelled not by unlined youth and beauty but by the kind of soul-mate connection even distance, age, and impossible circumstances couldn’t dim . . . Bloom’s goal is less to relitigate history than to portray the blandly sexless figurehead of First Lady as something the job rarely allows those women to be—a loving, breathing human being. And she does it brilliantly.”—Entertainment Weekly. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2022-07-02 20:00:03. https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=02ae12e9-b2aa-42e7-8fc2-158540974d30&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=02ae12e9-b2aa-42e7-8fc2-158540974d30&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=02ae12e9-b2aa-42e7-8fc2-158540974d30&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)