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Barenbaum, Rachel.
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Time travel -- Fiction.
Mothers and daughters -- Fiction.
Grandparent and child -- Fiction.
Chernobyl Nuclear Accident, Chornobylʹ, Ukraine, 1986 -- Fiction.
Nuclear accidents -- Fiction.
Nuclear energy -- Fiction.
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Barenbaum, Rachel.
Time travel -- Fiction.
Mothers and daughters -- Fiction.
Grandparent and child -- Fiction.
Chernobyl Nuclear Accident, Chornobylʹ, Ukraine, 1986 -- Fiction.
Nuclear accidents -- Fiction.
Nuclear energy -- Fiction.
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Atomic
Anna
/ Rachel Barenbaum.
by
Barenbaum, Rachel.
Grand Central Publishing, 2022.
Call #:
FICTION BAR
Subjects
Time travel -- Fiction.
Mothers and daughters -- Fiction.
Grandparent and child -- Fiction.
Chernobyl Nuclear Accident, Chornobylʹ, Ukraine, 1986 -- Fiction.
Nuclear accidents -- Fiction.
Nuclear energy -- Fiction.
ISBN:
9781538734865 (hc.)
Edition:
1st ed.
Description:
xi, 433 p. : genealogical table ; 24 cm.
Notes:
"A novel"--Jacket.
Summary:
"In 1986, renowned nuclear scientist
Anna
Berkov is sleeping in her bed in the Soviet Union when Chernobyl's reactor melts down. At that exact moment she tears through time-her first jump-and it's an accident. When she opens her eyes, she's landed in 1992 only to discover Molly, her estranged daughter, shot in the chest. Molly, with her dying breath, begs
Anna
to go back in time and stop the disaster, to save Molly's daughter Raisa, and put their family's future on a better path. In the '60s, Molly is coming of age as an adopted refusenik in a Russian enclave of Philadelphia. Her family is full of secrets and a past they won't share. She finds solace in comic books, drawing her own series,
Atomic
Anna
, inspired by her birth mother, and she's determined to make it in the world as an artist. When she meets the volatile, charismatic Viktor, their romance sets her life on a very different course. In the '80s, Raisa, a math prodigy, is a lonely teenager with her mother lost to a life of drugs. She devotes herself to studying until a quiet, handsome boy moves in across the street and an odd old woman claiming to be her biological grandmother begins asking for her help. As Raisa finds new issues of
Atomic
Anna
in unexpected places, she notices each comic challenges her to solve equations leading to one impossible conclusion: time travel. And she finally understands what she has to do.
Atomic
Anna
is a sweeping journey across time, space, and the many forms of love. As these remarkable women take responsibility for their choices and work together to prevent the greatest nuclear disaster of the 20th century, they grapple with the power their discoveries hold. No one can control how knowledge is used when it's out in the world, and just because you can change the past, does it mean you should?"--From publisher.
Genre:
Historical fiction.
Science fiction.
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