A bend in the stars / Rachel Barenbaum.
By: Barenbaum, Rachel
Publisher: New York : Grand Central Publishing, [2019] ©2019Description: 467 p. ; 20 cmISBN: 9781538746288 Report number: BV-Winter/Spring 21Subject(s): Brothers and sisters -- Fiction | Physicists -- Fiction | Women surgeons -- FictionGenre/Form: History. | Romance fiction. | Novels. | Historical fiction. | Love stories.Summary: In Russia, in the summer of 1914, as war with Germany looms and the Czar's army tightens its grip on the local Jewish community, Miri Abramov and her brilliant physicist brother, Vanya, are facing an impossible decision. Since their parents drowned fleeing to America, Miri and Vanya have been raised by their babushka, a famous matchmaker who has taught them to protect themselves at all costs: to fight, to kill if necessary, and always to have an escape plan. But now, with fierce, headstrong Miri on the verge of becoming one of Russia's only female surgeons, and Vanya hoping to solve the final puzzles of Einstein's elusive theory of relativity, can they bear to leave the homeland that has given them so much?| Item type | Current location | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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In Russia, in the summer of 1914, as war with Germany looms and the Czar's army tightens its grip on the local Jewish community, Miri Abramov and her brilliant physicist brother, Vanya, are facing an impossible decision. Since their parents drowned fleeing to America, Miri and Vanya have been raised by their babushka, a famous matchmaker who has taught them to protect themselves at all costs: to fight, to kill if necessary, and always to have an escape plan. But now, with fierce, headstrong Miri on the verge of becoming one of Russia's only female surgeons, and Vanya hoping to solve the final puzzles of Einstein's elusive theory of relativity, can they bear to leave the homeland that has given them so much?