She lives in Hanover, NH with her husband, three children, and dog named Zishe-after the folk hero who inspires many tales around their dinner table. For fans of All the Light We Cannot See and The Women in the Castle comes a riveting literary novel that is at once an epic love story and a heart-pounding journey across WWI-era Russia, about an ambitious young doctor and her scientist brother in a race against Einstein to solve one of the greatest mysteries of the universe.
She has degrees from Harvard in Business, and Literature and Philosophy. She is a graduate of GrubStreet’s “Novel Incubator.” In a former life she was a hedge fund manager and a spin instructor. Rachel Barenbaum is a prolific writer and reviewer for the Los Angeles Review of Books and DeadDarlings. Please buy A Bend in the Stars from your favorite local bookstore, or through Bookshop! As the eclipse that will change history darkens skies across Russia, not only the safety of Miri’s own family but the future of science itself hangs in the balance. Visual indication that the title is an audiobook. Miri braves the firing squad to go looking for them both. But now, with fierce, headstrong Miri on the verge of becoming one of Russia’s only female surgeons, and Vanya hoping to solve the final puzzles of Einstein’s elusive theory of relativity, can they bear to leave the homeland that has given them so much?īefore they have time to make their choice, war is declared and Vanya goes missing, along with Miri’s fiancé. Since their parents drowned fleeing to America, Miri and Vanya have been raised by their babushka, a famous matchmaker who has taught them to protect themselves at all costs: to fight, to kill if necessary, and always to have an escape plan. In Russia, in the summer of 1914, as war with Germany looms and the Czar’s army tightens its grip on the local Jewish community, Miri Abramov and her brilliant physicist brother, Vanya, are facing an impossible decision.
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