Description For fans of All the Light We Cannot See and The Women in the Castle comes a riveting literary novel that is at once an epic love story and a heart-pounding journey across WWI-era Russia, about an ambitious young doctor and her scientist brother in a race against Einstein to solve one of the greatest mysteries of the universe.
A Bend in the Stars is her first novel..
She has an MBA from the Harvard Business School and an AB in Literature and Philosophy from Harvard College.
In a former life she was a hedge fund manager and a spin instructor, before moving to the New Hampshire woods to write.
About the author Rachel Barenbaum is a graduate of Grub Street\'s Novel Incubator program.
Grounded in real history --and inspired by the solar eclipse of 1914 -- A Bend in the Stars offers a heartstopping account of modern science\'s greatest race amidst the chaos of World War I, and a love story as epic as the railways crossing Russia.
As the eclipse that will change history darkens skies across Russia, not only the safety of Miri\'s own family but the future of science itself hangs in the balance.
Miri braves the firing squad to go looking for them both.
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? Before they have time to make their choice, war is declared and Vanya goes missing, along with Miri\'s fianc .
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.
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.
Description For fans of All the Light We Cannot See and The Women in the Castle comes a riveting literary novel that is at once an epic love story and a heart-pounding journey across WWI-era Russia, about an ambitious young doctor and her scientist brother in a race against Einstein to solve one of the greatest mysteries of the universe
