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Today's Featured Title and Contest |
April 18, 2016 |
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This Bookreporter.com Special Newsletter spotlights a book that we know people will be talking about this spring. Read more about it, and enter our Spring Preview Contest by Tuesday, April 19th at 11:59am ET for a chance to win one of five copies of THE ATOMIC WEIGHT OF LOVE by Elizabeth J. Church, which releases on May 3rd. Please note that each contest is only open for 24 hours, so you will need to act quickly!
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Today's Featured Book and Contest: THE ATOMIC WEIGHT OF LOVE by Elizabeth J. Church
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In the spirit of THE AVIATOR'S WIFE and LOVING FRANK, this resonant debut spans the years from World War II through the Vietnam War to tell the story of a woman whose scientific ambition is caught up in her relationships with two very different men.
For Meridian Wallace --- and many other smart, driven women of the 1940s --- being ambitious meant being an outlier. Ever since she was a young girl, Meridian had been obsessed with birds, and she was determined to get her PhD, become an ornithologist, and make her mother’s sacrifices to send her to college pay off. But she didn’t expect to fall in love with her brilliant physics professor, Alden Whetstone. When he’s recruited to Los Alamos, New Mexico, to take part in a mysterious wartime project, she reluctantly defers her own plans and joins him.
What began as an exciting intellectual partnership devolves into a “traditional” marriage. And while the life of a housewife quickly proves stifling, it’s not until years later, when Meridian meets a Vietnam veteran who opens her eyes to how the world is changing, that she realizes just how much she has given up. The repercussions of choosing a different path, though, may be too heavy a burden to bear.
Elizabeth Church’s stirring debut novel about ambition, identity and sacrifice will ring true to every woman who has had to make the impossible choice between who she is and who circumstances demand her to be.
-Click here to read an excerpt.
-Click here to visit the book's Tumblr.
-Click here to connect with Elizabeth J. Church on Facebook.
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Click here to enter the contest by 11:59am ET on Tuesday, April 19th. |
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