She channels her academic ambitions into studying a particular family of crows, whose free life and companionship are the very things that seem beyond her reach. In married life, though, she feels lost and left behind. She is soon drawn to Alden Whetstone, a brilliant, complicated physics professor who opens her eyes to the fundamentals and poetry of his field, the beauty of motion, space and time, the delicate balance of force and energy that allows a bird to fly.Įntranced and in love, Meridian defers her own career path and follows Alden west to Los Alamos, where he is engaged in a secret government project (later known to be the atomic bomb).
In 1941, at seventeen years old, Meridian begins her ornithology studies at the University of Chicago. Church takes us from the World War II years in Chicago to the vast sun-parched canyons of New Mexico in the 1970s as we follow the journey of a driven, spirited young woman, Meridian Wallace, whose scientific ambitions are subverted by the expectations of her era. In her sweeping debut novel, Elizabeth J.
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