Roosevelt, wife of the New York governor and president-elect. This weekend is the present of the story, the through line to which the many memories and flashbacks are attached. In 1932, Lorena, who worked for the Associated Press, interviewed Mrs. Lorena (“Hick” to her friends) is, at Eleanor’s invitation, preparing Eleanor’s New York apartment for a weekend together. The novel opens on April 27th 1945, two weeks after the death of U.S. Sadder but wiser, she reflects: “ It’s not true that if you can imagine it, you can have it.” First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt became romantically involved in 1932, they dreamed of a life together a cottage on the Roosevelt estate, where “ the kids would come to see how happy I made their mother… our love would create its own world,” as Lorena puts it. The salty yet poetic narrator of White Houses makes this historical romance, in memoir form, engaging and moving. Subject matter and style combine to make Amy Bloom’s latest novel outstanding. Hick’s outrage over the trauma inflicted on gays and lesbians, the class divide, the beauty quotient, and the gender double standard fuels this socially incisive, psychologically saturated, funny, and erotic fictionalization of legendary figures this novel of extraordinary magnetism and insight this keen celebration of love, loyalty, and sacrifice.Paperback, $17.00usd, Nov 06, 2018, 256 Pages, ISBN 9780812985696 Through Hick’s loving eyes, we witness Eleanor’s complex struggles, unwavering discipline, and fierce passion, while Hick’s take on FDR and the rest of the Roosevelts is deftly lacerating. Via Hick’s crisp delivery and fluency in telling detail, Bloom uncloaks the insidious treacheries girls and women face, poor and privileged alike. As their hidden-in-plain-sight affair gains intensity, and Hick moves into the White House, she gives up her hard-won journalistic career.
When Hick begins covering the White House, she and Eleanor fall promptly in love.
She frankly recounts her brutal childhood in South Dakota, her striking out on her own as a young teen (including a stint with a circus), and her discovery of her reportorial talents and feelings for women. “Hick” narrates this empathic story of true and besieged love-and what a discerning, courageous, and mordantly witty observer she is. While researching her previous novel, Lucky Us (2014), Bloom found her next subject: the long-camouflaged if richly rumored relationship between First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt and trailblazing journalist Lorena Hickok.
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