<b><b>Lucille Ball, Hollywood’s first true media mogul, stars in this “bold” (<i>The Boston Globe</i>), “boisterous novel” (<i>The New Yorker</i>) with a thrilling love story at its heart—from the award-winning, bestselling author of <i>Chang & Eng</i> and <i>Half a Life</i><br><br>A <i>WASHINGTON POST</i> 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</b> <b><i>The Nickel Boys</i></b></b><br><br>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. <br><br>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.<br><br><i>The Queen of Tuesday</i>—Strauss’s follow-up to <i>Half a Life</i>, 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. Read Less