"A novel"--Cover. Includes bibliographical references.
Summary:
"Set in a fictional prairie town in which the two overarching industries are a living history facility and a laboratory for experiments in high-energy particle physics, [this book] tells the intertwined stories of two families."-- Amazon.com. Abhijat is a theoretical physicist from India, working at the National Accelerator Research Laboratory in Illinois. His wife, Sarala, home with their daughter, Meena, struggles to assimilate to their new American culture. Meena's best friend Lily is a precocious child prodigy whose mother, a local politician, becomes entangled in efforts to stop to the National Accelerator Research Laboratory's plans to build a new superconducting supercollider. The conflict over the collider fractures the community and creates deep divides within the families.
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