Charmed Particles

Set in a fictional prairie town in which the two overarching industries are a living history facility and a laboratory for experiments in high-energy particle physics, Charmed Particles tells the intertwined stories of two families.

Abhijat is a theoretical physicist from India now working at the National Accelerator Research Laboratory. His wife, Sarala, home with their young daughter, Meena, struggles to assimilate to their new American culture.

Meena's best friend at school is Lily, a precocious child prodigy whose father self-identifies as "the last great gentleman explorer" and whose mother, a local politician, becomes entangled in efforts to stop to the National Accelerator Research Laboratory's plans to build a new superconducting supercollider.

The conflict over the collider fractures the community and creates deep divides within the families of the novel.


Author: Chrissy Kolaya
Publisher: Dzanc Books
Published: 11/17/2015
Pages: 224
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.40w x 0.80d
ISBN13: 9781938103179
ISBN10: 1938103173
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Cultural Heritage
- Fiction | Family Life | General
- Fiction | Historical | General

About the Author
Chrissy Kolaya is a poet and fiction writer, the author of a collection of poems, "Any Anxious Body." Her poems and short fiction have appeared in a number of anthologies and literary journals, including "Chariton Review, Crab Orchard Review, Crazzyhorse, Iron Horse Literary Review," and others.