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Children of Radium: A Buried Inheritance

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Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize * Named a Best Book of the Year by The New Yorker

In the tradition of The Hare with Amber Eyes, this "profound...comic...[and] unconventional" (The New York Times) family memoir investigates the dark legacy of the author's great-grandfather, a talented German-Jewish chemist who wound up developing chemical weapons and gas mask filters for the Nazis.

When Joe Dunthorne began researching his family history, he expected to write the account of the...

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