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.