A Bend In The Stars
Author | Barenbaum, Rachel |
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Year | 2019 |
First published | 2019 |
Publisher | New York: Grand Central Publishing |
Number of pages | 464 |
Edition | First Hardcover Edition |
ISBN | 9781538746264 |
Keywords | astronomy, medicine (biomedical research), physics, women in science, historical, literary or mainstream, female scientist, scientist main character, Continental Europe |
Abstract
In Russia, in the summer of 1914, as war with Germany looms and the
Czar's army tightens its grip on the local Jewish community, Miri
Abramov and her brilliant physicist brother, Vanya, are facing an
impossible decision. Since their parents drowned fleeing to America,
Miri and Vanya have been raised by their babushka, a famous matchmaker
who has taught them to protect themselves at all costs: to fight, to
kill if necessary, and always to have an escape plan. But now, with
fierce, headstrong Miri on the verge of becoming one of Russia's only
female surgeons, and Vanya hoping to solve the final puzzles of
Einstein's elusive theory of relativity, can they bear to leave the
homeland that has given them so much?
Before they have time to make
their choice, war is declared and Vanya goes missing, along with Miri's
fiancé. Miri braves the firing squad to go looking for them both. As the
eclipse that will change history darkens skies across Russia, not only
the safety of Miri's own family but the future of science itself hangs
in the balance.
(Grounded in real history -- and inspired by the solar eclipse of 1914 --
Amazon)