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10. That sounds super!

Sun Oct 3, 2021, 01:34 PM

Oct 2021

Exquisitely capturing the claustrophobic eras of 1940s and 1950s America, "The Atomic Weight of Love" also examines the changing roles of women during the decades that followed. And in Meridian Wallace we find an unforgettable heroine whose metamorphosis shows how the women's movement opened up the world for a whole generation.

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