And she finally understands what she has to do.Īs these remarkable women work together to prevent the greatest nuclear disaster of the 20th century, they grapple with the power their discoveries hold. As Raisa finds new issues of Atomic Anna in unexpected places, she notices each comic challenges her to solve equations leading to one impossible conclusion: time travel. In the ‘80s, Raisa, is a lonely teen and math prodigy, until a quiet, handsome boy moves in across the street and an odd old woman shows up claiming to be her biological grandmother. Egon goes to visit Claudia at the nuclear power plant, telling her he has. When she meets the volatile, charismatic Viktor, their romance sets her life on a very different course. Visited by her future self in 1987, she learned that time travel existed and. She finds solace in comic books, drawing her own series, Atomic Anna, and she’s determined to make it as an artist. Her family is full of secrets and a past they won’t share. In ‘60s Philadelphia, Molly is coming of age as an adopted refusenik. Molly, with her dying breath, begs Anna to go back in time and stop the disaster, to save Molly’s daughter Raisa, and put their family’s future on a better path. When she opens her eyes, she’s landed in 1992 only to discover Molly, her estranged daughter, shot in the chest. It’s the exact moment she tears through time-and it’s an accident. Fifty years later time travel is a normal part of life and a huge business. The other three exile Bee from the project to save face. One of the scientists, Bee, suffers a mental breakdown just before they’re about to go public with their findings. In 1986, renowned nuclear scientist, Anna Berkova, is sleeping in her bed in the Soviet Union when Chernobyl’s reactor melts down. The Psychology of Time Travel by Kate Mascarenhas Four female scientists invent time travel in 1967. “ Atomic Anna is a dazzling work of ingenuity and imagination.”― Téa Obreht, National Book Award finalist and New York Times bestselling author of Inlandįrom the author of A Bend in the Stars, an epic adventure as three generations of women work together and travel through time to prevent the Chernobyl disaster and right the wrongs of their past. Recommendations from the African Diaspora.Workman Publishing Arrow Icon Arrow icon.Little, Brown Books for Young Readers Arrow Icon Arrow icon.Little, Brown and Company Arrow Icon Arrow icon.Hachette Nashville Arrow Icon Arrow icon.Grand Central Publishing Arrow Icon Arrow icon.
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