Susan's book pick is The Queen of Tuesdays: A Lucille Ball Story by Darin Strauss.
ABOUT THE BOOK
Lucille Ball, Hollywood’s first true media mogul, stars in this “bold” (The Boston Globe), “boisterous novel” (The New Yorker) with a thrilling love story at its heart—from the award-winning, bestselling author of Chang & Eng and Half a Life
A WASHINGTON POST
BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • “A gorgeous, Technicolor take on America in the
middle of the twentieth century.”—Colson Whitehead, Pulitzer
Prize–winning author of The Nickel Boys
This
indelible romance begins with a daring conceit—that the author’s
grandfather may have had an affair with Lucille Ball. Strauss offers a
fresh view of a celebrity America loved more than any other.
Lucille
Ball—the most powerful woman in the history of Hollywood—was part of
America’s first high-profile interracial marriage. She owned more movie
sets than did any movie studio. She more or less single-handedly created
the modern TV business. And yet Lucille’s off-camera life was in
disarray. While acting out a happy marriage for millions, she suffered
in private. Her partner couldn’t stay faithful. She struggled to balance
her fame with the demands of being a mother, a creative genius, an
entrepreneur, and, most of all, a symbol.
The Queen of Tuesday—Strauss’s follow-up to Half a Life,
winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award—mixes fact and
fiction, memoir and novel, to imagine the provocative story of a woman
we thought we knew.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Darin Strauss is the bestselling author of several books. The
recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship in fiction writing and numerous
other awards, Strauss has seen his work translated into fourteen
languages and published in more than twenty countries. He is a clinical
associate professor of writing at New York University, and he lives with
his wife and children in Brooklyn.
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