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Luminous Bodies
A Literary Fiction Novel by Devon Jersild
Subgenres:
- Biographical Historical Fiction,
- World War I,
- Women's Fiction
This book is for you if you're into...
- Deep dives into the private lives of scientific icons
- Stories of women navigating love, loss, and public scrutiny
- Historical fiction centering on resilience and female friendship
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.
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