ms_greenjeans 's review for:

Half Life by Jillian Cantor

3.0

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Everything is about choices. This author writes about two parallel lives—the real Marie Curie and the fictional Marya Slowdowska, or the Marie Curie who fell in love with a guy instead of science. I liked learning about Marie—I had no idea she was so hounded by the press or that she had a torrid love affair with a married man after Pierre died. I also liked Marya, and learning about Poland and France, etc. I like to think the real Marie was a little less serious than this version, but who knows? Mostly this book makes you think about how lives can be so different with one change in one choice and that can really make you jolt wide awake in the middle of the night.