![]() Meridian tries to hold on to her dream of graduate work in ornithology, but for all his respect and concern, hers is a husband of his time: “You cannot seriously propose that I give up my job, that we leave Los Alamos and live in some student’s turret in upstate New York while you write a master’s thesis.” And so they don’t. Part of Church’s tightly crafted novel is reminiscent of the WGN America TV show “Manh(a)ttan,” which also featured clever women intellectually wasting away in the New Mexico desert while their husbands built the bomb. ![]() ![]() But then she falls in love - with a physics professor 20 years her senior - and finds herself married and living in a house with a white picket fence in 1940s Los Alamos. A child of the 1920s, she sets off into young adulthood with gusto, busting taboos by studying for a bachelor’s degree in biology at the University of Chicago. Women’s liberation came along too late for Meridian Wallace. ![]() THE ATOMIC WEIGHT OF LOVE By Elizabeth J. ![]()
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