![]() I am still haunted by the paper dolls a Hiroshima survivor used to show what her father looked like after the blast. In some places, the art told the story better than any words could convey. Marie’s brain and heart were on display in all their magnificent beauty. I felt the great passion in their story as lovers and scientists and witnessed it in the art. This was Marie and Pierre outside of the proverbial box. ![]() It felt disjointed, loose, wild, unseemly. The story of Marie and Pierre was interrupted, often and abruptly, with little anecdotes from other keystone events in radioactivity. Sometimes there was only one sentence on a two-page spread or art pieces would be interspersed with the photographs. The art made the book a challenge to read as the paragraphs often fit around the art pieces and the type was sometimes white. This was them in crude drawings and photographs and Xerox copies. Nothing against art, but I wanted Marie Curie with a little side of Pierre and maybe some interesting snippets from their life and work. I felt misled-this is not the book I was waiting for.įor one thing, it is as much an art piece as a book about Marie Curie. But when I picked up Radioactive, my heart sank a little. ![]() ![]() When a book is a National Book Award Finalist, I am ready to be impressed. Radioactive: A Tale of Love and Fallout by Lauren Redniss ![]()
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