Bloom has Hickok joining Roosevelt there, and their interactions over that weekend are a creation of the novelist's imagination. Much of the novel's action takes place in Eleanor Roosevelt's New York City apartment over a weekend in late April 1945, a couple of weeks after Franklin's death. Most of Bloom's information on Hickok's youth comes from the historical record, although she used her imagination to cover a gap - in the months unaccounted for in Hickok's young life, Bloom places her as a secretary and publicist for a low-budget traveling circus. Hickok eventually made her way from South Dakota to the home of a supportive relative in Chicago and was able to continue her education there, and then she found her calling as a journalist. Not the least of them was Roosevelt's marriage to the president of the United States, which brought a need for secrecy in an era not accepting of same-sex relationships, especially one involving a first lady.īloom tells the story from Hickok's viewpoint, chronicling her miserable childhood and adolescence - her father was sexually abusive, her mother died young, and her stepmother sent her out to work as a domestic servant in her early teens. She portrays two women very much in love and acting on it, having an affair of the heart, mind, and body despite many complications. But novelists can imagine that, and that's what Bloom does in White Houses.
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