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For Meridian Wallace and many other smart, driven women of the 1940s being ambitious meant being an outlier. Ever since she was a young girl, Meridian has been obsessed with birds, and she s determined to get her PhD, become an ornithologist, and make her mother s sacrifices to send her to college pay off. But she didn t expect to fall in love with her brilliant physics professor, Alden Whetstone. When he s recruited to Los Alamos, New Mexico, to take part in a mysterious wartime project, she reluctantly defers her own plans and joins him."