Lost and wanted

Summary: "Helen Clapp's breakthrough work on five-dimensional spacetime landed her a tenured professorship at MIT; her popular books explain physics in plain terms. Helen disdains notions of the supernatural in favor of rational thought and proven ideas. So it's perhaps especially vexing for her when, on an otherwise unremarkable Wednesday in June, she gets a phone call from a friend who has just died. That friend was Charlotte Boyce, Helen's roommate at Harvard. The two women had once confided in each other about everything--in college, the unwanted advances Charlie received from a star literature professor; after graduation, Helen's struggles as a young woman in science, Charlie's as a black screenwriter in Hollywood, their shared challenges as parents. But as the years passed, Charlie became more elusive, and her calls came less and less often. And now she's permanently, tragically gone. As Helen is drawn back into Charlie's orbit, and also into the web of feelings she once had for Neel Jonnal--a former college classmate now an acclaimed physicist on the verge of a Nobel Prize-winning discovery--she is forced to question the laws of the universe that had always steadied her mind and heart.

Item details

ISBN: 9780385352680
ISBN: 0385352689
ISBN: 9780385352697
Physical Description: print
315 pages ; 24 cm
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2019.
Copyright: ©2019
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General Note:

"A Borzoi Book."

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Subject:

Physicists Fiction
Female friendship Fiction
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FICTION / Contemporary Women
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Domestic fiction.
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