Friday, May 20, 2016

The Atomic Weight of Love by Elizabeth J. Church

In her sweeping debut novel, Elizabeth J. Church takes us from the World War II years in Chicago to the vast sun-parched canyons of New Mexico in the 1970s as we follow the journey of a driven, spirited young woman, Meridian Wallace, whose scientific ambitions are subverted by the expectations of her era.

In 1941, at seventeen years old, Meridian begins her ornithology studies at the University of Chicago. She is soon drawn to Alden Whetstone, a brilliant, complicated physics professor who opens her eyes to the fundamentals and poetry of his field, the beauty of motion, space and time, the delicate balance of force and energy that allows a bird to fly... read more and download

Book Details:
Hardcover, 352 pages
Published May 3rd 2016
ISBN 1616204842 (ISBN13: 9781616204846)
Edition Language English

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