7/1/2023 0 Comments Amy bloom eleanor roosevelt![]() Given his own complicated love life, FDR accepted the affair and got Lorena a job with his administration. Lorena and Eleanor fell in love shortly before FDR won the presidency. More riveting are Lorena’s memories of her early life before Eleanor, from a dirt-poor childhood to a brief circus career described in arrestingly colorful detail to work as a journalist forbidden to publish her suspicion that Lindbergh staged a coverup concerning his baby’s kidnapping. Now in late middle-age, the two fall into their ingrained routine as lovers-and has anyone written about middle-aged women’s bodies and sexuality with Bloom’s affectionate grace? Lorena’s enduring love for Eleanor does not blind her to the reality of the two women’s differences: “Her propriety, my brass knuckles.” Bloom mostly depicts already familiar details of Eleanor’s history, character, and personality. On the last weekend in April 1945, a grieving Eleanor has summoned Lorena to her Manhattan apartment years after having sent her away. Her storytelling begins and continually circles back to shortly after FDR’s death. ![]() ![]() Lorena’s winning narrative voice is tough, gossipy, and deeply humane. ![]() From the prolific Bloom, whose novels and short stories have often explored the complexity of sexuality and gender ( Lucky Us, 2014, etc.), a bio-fiction about the romance between Eleanor Roosevelt and journalist Lorena Hickok told from Hickok’s perspective. ![]()
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