"Jackie" by Dawn Tripp. I had to keep reminding myself that this was a novel. I couldn't wait to finish it obviously not because I didn't know what was going to happen but because I did. It was so beautifully written yet so many times tough to read. The magnificence of Jackie and Jack's minds, their banter, their knowledge was awe inspiring. I wanted to finish because I just couldn't "take" anymore and then I didn't want it to ever end.

This is *Jackie: A Novel by Dawn Tripp* - from the author of _Georgia_ (about Georgia O'Keeffe).

Published *June 18, 2024* - 496 pages. It's historical fiction, very intimate and literary, told mostly from Jackie's point of view.

Here is a summary in English:

The book opens with the horror we all know: *November 22, 1963, Dallas*. Jackie is in the convertible, next to Jack. Tripp writes: _"Three and a half seconds—that's all it was—a slivered instant between the first shot, which missed the car, and the second, which did not."_

Then it goes back to the beginning.

*1951 - Georgetown:*

Jacqueline Bouvier is *21 years old*, just graduated from Vassar. She has won an internship at Vogue, she dreams of Paris, of France, of a life of freedom and adventure.

Friends try to set her up with the young, charismatic congressman from Massachusetts, *Jack Kennedy*. At first she is not interested. She thinks: _"Too American. Too good-looking. Too boy."_ She thinks he loves a game and will leave it once he's won it.