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The sound of a thousand stars a novel

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...

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Main Author: Robbins, Rachel (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Alcove Press, 2024.
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Oppenheimer, J. Robert, > 1904-1967 > Fiction.
Women physicists > Fiction.
Jews > Fiction.
World War, 1939-1945 > Fiction.
Atomic bomb victims > Japan > Fiction.
United States > Politics and government > Fiction.
Official secrets > Fiction.
Hiroshima-shi (Japan) > History > Bombardment, 1945 > Fiction.
Los Alamos (Calif.) > Fiction.
Historical fiction.
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Summary: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.
Physical Description:313 pages ; 22 cm
ISBN:9781639108961
1639108963
Author Notes:Rachel Robbins received her MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She is a tenured assistant professor at Malcolm X College, one of the City Colleges of Chicago. A visual artist and two-time Pushcart Prize-nominated writer, her paintings have materialized on public transit, children's daycare centers, and Chicago's Magnificent Mile. She lives in Chicago with her husband, children, and Portuguese Water Dog. The Sound of a Thousand Stars is loosely based on her grandparents, who worked at Los Alamos but never spoke of their time there.

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