From the shelves of co-grandma Mimi Miller, who died in February 2020.

Well, this is a bit of a twist. It is not unusual for writers to put together what they think might have happened at a particular time, filling in gaps with imagination. Thus Mallon might have taken what we know about Watergate and turned it into a story that tries to tell the truth.

That is not what happened here. Certainly there is a lot of truth in the book, but some things are fabricated entirely. It's a mixture of real and unreal, where the essence is still very much real.

Told with a great deal of humor and insight, the story kept my interest and made me laugh at times. We know so much about Watergate that I found myself going to Google to ask "Did Pat Nixon have an affair?" and "Did X kill himself?" and a few more questions. The book also drew my attention to the many peripheral characters in this drama, many I had not known existed. The story here reminds us that it wasn't only Nixon who was affected.