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In The Field a novel
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A Selected Title of the National Book Foundation and the Alfred B. Sloan Foundation’s Science + Literature Program
In 1920, having persuaded her resistant mother to send her to college, Kate Croft falls in love with science. Painfully rebuffed by a girl she longs for, and in flight from her own confusing sexuality, Kate finds refuge in the calm rationality of biology: its vision of a deeply interconnected world, and the promise that the new field of genetics can explain the way people are.
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