Pub Day Giveaway: The Atomic Weight of Love
•No. 1 Indie Next Pick for May.
•Featured Debut of the Month on Amazon.
•A Harper’s Bazaar Hottest Breakout Novel of Spring
•Bustle calls it a “mother/daughter book club must-read of 2016, Elizabeth J. Church’s debut novel, The Atomic Weight of Love is a beautiful and sad book that explores the kinds of sacrifices women make for their families.”
And now you get a chance to win an autographed copy of Elizabeth Church’s much-buzzed-about novel. Enter below for your shot at this stirring debut novel about ambition, identity, and sacrifice.
In the spirit of The Aviator’s Wife and Loving Frank, this resonant debut spans the years from World War II through the Vietnam War to tell the story of a woman whose scientific ambition is caught up in her relationships with two very different men.
For Meridian Wallace — and many other smart, driven women of the 1940s — being ambitious meant being an outlier. Ever since she was a young girl, Meridian had been obsessed with birds, and she was determined to get her PhD, become an ornithologist, and make her mother’s sacrifices to send her to college pay off. But she didn’t expect to fall in love with her brilliant physics professor, Alden Whetstone. When he’s recruited to Los Alamos, New Mexico, to take part in a mysterious wartime project, she reluctantly defers her own plans and joins him.
What began as an exciting intellectual partnership devolves into a “traditional” marriage. And while the life of a housewife quickly proves stifling, it’s not until years later, when Meridian meets a Vietnam veteran who opens her eyes to how the world is changing, that she realizes just how much she has given up. The repercussions of choosing a different path, though, may be too heavy a burden to bear.
Please fill out this form to enter for a chance to win an autographed copy of The Atomic Weight of Love. Entries must be received by 5 p.m. Eastern, Tuesday, May 10. One entry per person only. Five winners will be chosen at random. (Residents of the United States and Canada only, please.)
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I’m so looking forward to reading this novel. While I would love to have my own autographed copy, our local library (where the powers that be allow me to work) will be getting a copy or two! The synopsis sounds like a book club read that would inspire great conversation!
This book sounds great!
Thank you so much! I was out of town for a few weeks with very little access to Internet and I return to find that I had won a copy of “The Atomic Weight of Love” from the blog giveaway! I had been looking forward to reading this novel and now have one directly from the publisher to read! I need to let you know that for some reason my copy isn’t autographed, and the blog states that winners would receive autographed copies. But autographed or not, I truly appreciate your giveaways and thank you again for this book.
I have just finished “The Atomic Weight of Love” and would like to write to Ms. Church to tell her how much I admired her book. Is there a way I can send her an email? Thanks for your help.