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In the soul of The Aviator's Partner and Loving Frank, this resonant debut spans the years from World Conflict II through the Vietnam Conflict to tell the story of a woman whose technological ambition is caught up in her human relationships with two very different men. For Meridian Wallace - and a great many other smart, powered women of the 1940s - being ambitious meant being an outlier. Ever since she was a girl, Meridian had been obsessed with wild birds, and she was established to get her PhD, become an ornithologist, and make her mother's sacrifices to send her to school pay off. But she didn't expect to fall deeply in love with her outstanding physics professor, Alden Whetstone. When he's recruited to Los Alamos, New Mexico, to take part in a mysterious wartime task, she reluctantly defers her own ideas and joins him. What began as an exciting intellectual collaboration devolves into a "traditional" relationship. And while the life of your housewife quickly shows stifling, it's not until years later, when Meridian complies with a Vietnam veteran who opens her eyes to the way the world is changing, that she realizes just how much she has abandoned. The repercussions of choosing some other course, though, may be too heavy an encumbrance to endure. Elizabeth Church's stirring debut novel about ambition, personality, and sacrifice will ring true to every girl who has had to make the impossible choice between who she is and who circumstances demand her to be.
