Name: Who Is Vera Kelly?
Rating: 3.833333333333333 (12 reviews)
ISBN: 9781947793019

Rosalie Knecht

A Most Anticipated Book of 2018 atThe Huffington Post, Book Riot, Bustle, Autostraddle, and more.

Who Is Vera Kelly?

Suzanne

I thoroughly enjoyed this book.
I expected the book to start in NYC, because the summary says so, but the book actually jumps back and forth between Vera's teenage years up to her NYC move and the "newer" (1965/1966) time line.
Vera is in Argentina for the CIA trying to sniff out communists.
I loved Vera as a protagonist, and was very disheartened by the reality of a lesbian woman in the 60s who could be fired just for loving who she loved. I know it's still not the case everywhere in the world and that is so so sad.
I would recommend this to anyone who loves a good spy-novel. During this unending epidemic, it's so lovely to be able to travel through books.
It's a historical novel, though I am not familiar with Argentina in that time, so I can't say if it's accurate but from what I googled it seemed to be.
The book made me want to read the sequel straight away, which in a different way maybe was even better.

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Who Is Vera Kelly?

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