Atomic Weight of Love: A Novel

"[A] beautifully written story of a woman who must negotiate the tricky terrain of love, responsibility, ambition and sacrifice."*

In 1941, at seventeen years old, Meridian Wallace 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.

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