Amy bloom eleanor roosevelt7/4/2023 Hick recalls a party at the White House in 1941 in which Franklin's secretary and another of his former lovers, Missy LeHand, suffered a stroke. Hick assures Anna that Eleanor will forgive her, because Eleanor is a kind and generous person. Eleanor is angry because Anna invited one of Franklin's former lovers to his deathbed. Hick receives a phone call from Eleanor's daughter Anna, who asks for help smoothing things over with her mother. Hick then briefly traveled with a circus before moving to Chicago to live with her aunt and finishing school. Eleanor grew up wealthy and attended boarding school, whereas Hick grew up in poverty in Bowdle, South Dakota where she was raped and abused by her father before being sent out to work as a maid at age 13. She recalls meeting Eleanor for the first time while working as a journalist and taking a train trip with her in which the two women shared memories from their respective childhoods. Hick recalls the early years of their relationship, how she lived in the White House and vacationed with Eleanor in Vermont and Quebec. The novel opens on Eleanor Roosevelt's New York City apartment where her longtime friend and lover Lorena “Hick” Hickok has recently arrived to comfort the First Lady after the death of her husband, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. The following version of this book was used to create this study guide: Bloom, Amy.
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