JCC MetroWest Book Group presents, Rachel Barenbaum, “Atomic Anna”

Artist Molly names her superhero character Atomic Anna after her birth mother.  Molly learns from her Soviet refusenik adoptive parents that Anna’s research was key to the development of the atomic bomb. Later she will learn about Anna’s other research into riding ripples of time, as her mother unexpectedly appears at different points of Molly’s life. In this inventive time-travel drama, Anna struggles between her desire to stop the meltdown of the Chernobyl reactor she designed and the possibility of saving her daughter and the granddaughter she never met. “The threads build toward a deeply satisfying denouement, and the author uses the sci-fi plot device to explore parent-child relationships and questions about the morality of changing the past.” (Publisher’s Weekly)

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12:00 Book Group discussion
1:00 Presentation with the author