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SUMMARY:Northshire Bookstore: Devon Jersild - Luminous Bodies: A Novel of M
 arie Curie
DESCRIPTION:Jersild will discuss her remarkable debut novel. In the popular
  imagination\, Marie Curie was all brilliance and unshakeable drive. Lumin
 ous Bodies is a tender exploration of the vulnerable woman behind the lege
 nd.\n\nIn the vein of Georgia (Dawn Tripp) and Matrix (Lauren Groff)\, the
  narrative follows Marie from girlhood in Poland to the battlefields of Wo
 rld War I\, focusing on her marriage\, widowhood\, and love affair with ph
 ysicist Paul Langevin--after which she was ostracized from society and the
  scientific community. Haunted by self-doubt\, she turned to Hertha Ayrton
 \, the scientist and suffragist who drew her back from the brink of suicid
 e.\n\nHow did Curie endure all this\, and still achieve so much? What sust
 ained her rich emotional\, sexual\, and intellectual life--and what were t
 he costs? Jersild explores these questions in this radiant novel.\n\n"This
  tense\, moving\, riveting story burns hot: it's historical fiction at its
  very best." - Chris Bohjalian \n\n"Marie Curie's professional achievement
 s aren't slighted in Jersild's first novel\, Luminous Bodies\, but what fa
 scinates her are the Nobel-Prize-winning scientist's personal struggles in
  a patriarchal world . . . Choosing to narrate Curie's experiences in an i
 nventive first-person voice adds immediacy to a story filled with dramatic
  triumphs and disappointments." - New York Times \n\nDEVON JERSILD is a wr
 iter and practicing clinical psychologist in Weybridge\, Vermont. She won 
 an O. Henry Award for a story that appeared in the Kenyon Review\, and has
  written for many other publications\, including New England Review\, Time
 s Literary Supplement\, New York Times\, USA Today\, and Redbook. She has 
 also been Associate Editor at New England Review and Associate Director of
  the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference. Her book of nonfiction\, Happy Hours:
  Alcohol in a Woman's Life\, was widely acclaimed. Luminous Bodies is her 
 first novel.\n\nLink: https://northshire.com/event/2026-09-05/northshire-m
 anchester-devon-jersild-luminous-bodies-novel-marie-curie
LOCATION:Northshire Bookstore\n4869 Main Street\, Manchester Center\, VT 05
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