Meanwhile, opportunities are falling in Louise's lap that she'd have to be crazy to refuse, including an interview with America's most famous living author, Ernest Hemingway. As Louise pieces together rumors, hunches, and clues, the picture begins to come together- Downtown 's strings are being pulled by someone powerful, and that someone doesn't want artists or writers criticizing Uncle Sam. But when she overhears Joe and his business partner fighting about listening devices and death threats, Louise can't help but investigate, and she quickly finds herself wading into dangerous waters. She's filed some of the best pieces at her boyfriend Joe's brand new literary magazine, Downtown (albeit under a male pseudonym), her relationship still makes her weak at the knees, and the science fiction romance she's writing on the side, "The Lunar Housewife," is going swimmingly. Caroline Woods pens a story that will linger in the memory!" -Kate Quinn, New York Times bestselling author of The Alice Network New York City, 1953: Louise Leithauser's star is on the rise. " The Lunar Housewife is wonderfully entertaining and slyly subversive. A stylish and suspenseful historical page-turner following an up-and-coming journalist who stumbles onto a web of secrets, deceptions, and mysteries at a popular new literary magazine-inspired by the true story of CIA intervention in Cold War American arts and letters.
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