{"product_id":"dancing-with-einstein-9781451656459","title":"Dancing with Einstein","description":"\u003cb\u003eFrom the acclaimed author of \u003ci\u003eSetting Fires, \u003c\/i\u003e this highly original novel offers a protagonist so intensely felt and so compassionately rendered that readers will not easily let her go at the novel's 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. \u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eBut 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.\u003c\/b\u003e 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. Marea's father, a Holocaust survivor, worked on the Manhattan Project and later on the development of the hydrogen bomb; her mother was a confirmed pacifist. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFrightened by her early exposure to the threat of nuclear annihilation, young Marea finds comfort in the company of her father's 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 Marea's life as suddenly as he entered it and her father is killed in a mysterious car accident, she is left alone with a mother she no longer trusts and with questions that won't go away. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eNearly two decades later, during the August hiatus from her four therapists, Marea takes a reluctant trip home to Princeton. There her eyes are newly opened to the past when she uncovers her father's secret Cold War diary. \u003cbr\u003e Weaving back and forth between 1970s New York and 1950s Princeton, Wenner's exploration of the impact that history can have on a young life is powerful and moving--a deeply intelligent look at the challenge of finding hope in the modern age.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Scribner Book Company\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/07\/2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781451656459\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 240\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.57lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.80d","brand":"Kate Wenner","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41334264299701,"sku":"9781451656459","price":13.59,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_bdfcd713-a8f9-498f-bc2c-c010dd1e7b24.jpg?v=1636431655","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/dancing-with-einstein-9781451656459","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}