The Atomic Weight Of Love Church Elizabeth J Author by Church, Elizabeth J., Author instant download after payment.

333 pages ; 22 cm, Capturing \"the claustrophobic eras of 1940s and 1950s America, The Atomic Weight of Love also examines the changing roles of women during the decades that followed. And in Meridian Wallace we find an unforgettable heroine whose metamorphosis shows how the women's movement opened up the world for a whole generation.\"--Jacket, 1941. As Meridian begins her ornithology studies at the University of Chicago she is drawn to Alden Whetstone, a physics professor who opens her eyes to the fundamentals and poetry of his field, the beauty of motion, space and time, the delicate balance of force and energy that allows a bird to fly. Following Alden to Los Alamos, they marry and she channels her academic ambitions into studying a particular family of crows, whose free life seems beyond her reach. In the 1970s, with protests rupturing college campuses across the country, Meridian meets Clay, a young geologist and veteran of the Vietnam War, and together they seek ways to mend what the world has broken