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From the acclaimed author of Setting Fires , this highly original new novel offers a protagonist so intensely felt and so compassionately rendered that readers will not easily let her go at the novelDancing with Einsteins end. She is Marea Hoffman, who, after wandering the world for seven years, has returned to New York at age thirty with the intention of starting her real life. But Marea approaches everything in her own idiosyncratic style, and she is soon seeing four different therapists simultaneously and telling her story to each in a different way. The story she reveals is about her childhood in 1950s Princeton during the age of duck and cover drills and McCarthyism, when fear of communism obsessed America. Mareas father, a Holocaust survivor, worked on the Manhattan Project and later on the development of the hydrogen bomb; her mother was a confirmed pacifist. Frightened by her early exposure to the threat of nuclear annihilation, young Marea finds comfort in the company of her fathers colleague and friend, the grandfatherly Albert Einstein. Einstein charms Marea even as he provokes the wrenching moral debate that will drive her parents apart. When Einstein disappears from M

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Author

Wenner, Kate

Publisher

New York: Scribner

Published

2004

Language

EN

ISBN

9780743251648

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, Historical Fiction

Rating

3.49 / 5 (92 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14