Saving St. Germ

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Publication Year:
2014

ISBN-13: 9781480484771

<DIV><B>Consumed by her pursuit of a Theory of Everything, a brilliant California scientist struggles to deal with life in and outside the lab</B><BR /><BR />Doctor Esme Charbonneau Tallich&rsquo;s passion is cosmology, the science of the origin of the universe; specifically, she is searching for a TOE, or a Theory of Everything. Esme is a feminist maverick, a rogue thinker. Hired as a professor of molecular biology at the University of Greater California, she prefers the &ldquo;bench science&rdquo; of organic chemistry at one extreme and &ldquo;walking out into space&rdquo; at the other. Her marriage to a TV director and aspiring stand-up comedian is rocky. Esme&rsquo;s five-year-old daughter, Ollie, the sun in her galaxy, seems an enigma. Too readily diagnosed by professionals as &ldquo;challenged,&rdquo; even possibly autistic, she is, like Esme, a renegade thinker and creative mind. Her use of language is poetic, not deficit driven or conventional.<BR /><BR />As her marriage dissolves, Esme&rsquo;s struggle to maintain custody of Ollie and autonomy for herself and her work is set against the backdrop of the beckoning cosmos. Her tantalizing closeness to discovery of a grand unified theory&mdash;as psychiatric professionals, lawyers, and Esme&rsquo;s estranged husband also close in on Ollie, seeking to medicate and restructure her&mdash;heightens tension while also offering hope. The discovery that Esme seeks is twofold: enlightenment and equilibrium in the troubled universes of her personal and professional lives.&#160;<I>Saving St. Germ&#160;</I>is a provocative, dramatic look at a single mother&rsquo;s life at the edge of the universe&mdash;and the center of the human heart.</DIV>