(Fiction, 448 pp. 2022)
Atomic Anna imagines the lengths to which Chernobyl’s principal architect/physicist would go to undo the meltdown, and the concomitant destruction of her self-worth. When the impact of nuclear forces unleashed by Chernobyl’s explosion transports Anna to a remote Armenian mountaintop, she discovers her Soviet apparatchik ex-husband had surreptitiously enabled the completion of her engineering side project: an immense, clandestine time machine. Repeated time travel messes with reality, but becomes increasingly urgent as Anna seeks to disentangle tightly held family secrets across decades to save her loved ones. Returning again and again to right a catastrophic wrong, Anna must rediscover her own humanity.
Reader’s guide and discussion questions by Hadassah Magazine, June 2022
Review by Jen Doll, The New York Times, April 5, 2022
Review by Eve Attermann, Publishers Weekly, April 2022
Review by Mark Birnheim, BookPage, April 5, 2022
Review by Sara Shukla, Los Angeles Times, April 5, 2022
Review by Kristen, Always With A Book, November 24, 2022
Review by Jamie Wendt, The Jewish Book Council, April 4, 2022
Author interview by Elizabeth Chiles Shelbourne, Dead Darlings, April 7, 2022
Author interview podcast by Daniel Ford and Kelly J. Ford, Writer’s Bone, April 12, 2022
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