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Title Charmed particles / Chrissy Kolaya.
Author Kolaya, Chrissy, author.
Publication Info. Ann Arbor, MI : Dzanc Books, 2015.
©2015
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 Orlando Public Library (Downtown) - Library Central  FIC KOL    Check Shelves
Edition First U.S. edition.
Description 270 pages ; 22 cm
text txt rdacontent
unmediated n rdamedia
volume nc rdacarrier
Note Includes discussion questions.
Summary "Set in a fictional prairie town in which the two overarching industries are a living history facility and a laboratory for experiments in high-energy particle physics, [this book] tells the intertwined stories of two families." -- Amazon.com.
Abhijat is a theoretical physicist from India, working at the National Accelerator Research Laboratory in Illinois. His wife, Sarala, home with their daughter, Meena, struggles to assimilate to their new American culture. Meena's best friend Lily is a precocious child prodigy whose mother, a local politician, becomes entangled in efforts to stop to the National Accelerator Research Laboratory's plans to build a new superconducting supercollider. The conflict over the collider fractures the community and creates deep divides within the families.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Subject Historical museums -- Fiction.
Particles (Nuclear physics) -- Fiction.
Superconducting Super Collider -- Fiction.
City and town life -- Fiction.
Families -- Fiction.
Science -- Social aspects -- Fiction.
Illinois -- Fiction.
East Indians -- United States -- Fiction.
Physicists -- Fiction.
Women politicians -- Fiction.
ISBN 9781938103179 paperback : $15.95
1938103173 paperback
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