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Luminous Bodies: A Novel of Marie Curie
"Captivating."--Christian Science Montitor"Devon Jersild's beautiful novel is alchemic, bringing Marie Curie--the scientist, the lover, the mother, the...
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"Captivating."
--Christian Science Montitor
"Devon Jersild's beautiful novel is alchemic, bringing Marie Curie--the scientist, the lover, the mother, the immigrant, the Nobel Laureate--to life. This tense, moving, riveting story burns hot: it's historical fiction at its very best."
--Chris Bohjalian, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Flight Attendant and Hour of the Witch
"Jersild brilliantly fictionalizes Marie Curie's dramatic life by imagining with verve, lyricism, and empathy the scientist's tumultuous inner world . . . [This] ravishing biographical novel, set within the larger story of the fight for women's rights and capturing the demands and thrills of science, glows with evocative psychological and societal insights."
--Booklist
In the popular imagination, Marie Curie was all brilliance and unshakeable drive. Luminous Bodies is a tender exploration of the vulnerable woman behind the legend.
In the vein of Georgia (Dawn Tripp) and Matrix (Lauren Groff), the narrative follows Marie from girlhood in Poland to the battlefields of World War I, focusing on her marriage, widowhood, and love affair with physicist Paul Langevin--after which she was ostracized from society and the scientific community. Haunted by self-doubt, she turned to Hertha Ayrton, the scientist and suffragist who drew her back from the brink of suicide.
How did Curie endure all this, and still achieve so much? What sustained her rich emotional, sexual, and intellectual life--and what were the costs? Jersild explores these questions in this radiant novel.
Author: Devon Jersild
Publisher: Paul Dry Books
Published: 02/17/2026
Pages: 364
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.05lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.50w x 1.10d
ISBN: 9781589882102
Review Citation(s):
Booklist 02/01/2026
Kirkus Reviews 01/01/2026
Foreword 12/18/2025
About the Author
Devon Jersild is a writer and practicing clinical psychologist in Weybridge, Vermont. She won an O. Henry Award for a story that appeared in the Kenyon Review, and has written for many other publications, including New England Review, Times Literary Supplement, New York Times, USA Today, and Redbook. She has also been Associate Editor at New England Review and Associate Director of the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference. Her book of nonfiction, Happy Hours: Alcohol in a Woman's Life, was widely acclaimed. Luminous Bodies is her first novel.
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