The Secret Memoirs of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis Book

Jackie Kennedy quite famously said, -I want to live my life, not record it.+ Jackie remains elusive, her interior life hidden, her soul masked behind sunglasses. These fictional memoirs tell Jackie+s story in Jackie+s voice-with all her joy and wit, grief and bitterness, fortitude and gentleness. Francisco plunges into the subtext of Jackie+s public life, psychology and sexuality, reimagining Jackie+s feelings and thoughts between the lines of recorded history.Jackie+s life is an epic tale-her privileged yet wrenching youth, the exaltation and suffering of her first marriage, the shattering despair of her losses, her exile, and loneliness. As she forgives her jealous rival, Maria Callas, and her abusive second husband, Aristotle Onassis, she begins to find redemption, ultimately finding peace through her children and her work.This sweeping novel reveals not only what Jackie could very possibly have written herself, but is also a mythic fable of the trials and tribulations of the female soul.Read More