The sound of a thousand stars
(2024)
By:
Robbins, Rachel
Fiction
Book
Call Numbers:
FICTION/ROBBINS,R
1 Hold on 1 Copy
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
New York, NY : Alcove Press, 2024
©2024
©2024
EDITION
First edition
DESCRIPTION
313 pages ; 22 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9781639108961, 1639108963 :, 1639108963, 9781639108961
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
Alice Katz is a young Jewish physicist, one of the only female doctoral students at her university, studying with the famed Dr. Oppenheimer. Her well-to-do family wants her to marry a man of her class and settle down. Instead, Alice answers her country's call to come to an unnamed city in the desert to work on a government project shrouded in secrecy. At Los Alamos, Alice meets Caleb Blum, a poor Orthodox Jew who has been assigned to the explosives division. Around them are other young scientists and engineers who have quietly left their university posts to come live in the desert