Devon Jersild -- Luminous Bodies

Join author Devon Jersild for a reading from her new book Luminous Bodies! Luminous Bodies follows Marie Curie through a life of discovery, upheaval, and extraordinary resolve—from her youth in Poland and groundbreaking scientific work to war, widowhood, public scandal, and lasting achievement. Deeply researched and richly imagined, the novel portrays Curie not as an icon but as a woman of brilliance, vulnerability, and complexity, exploring what allowed her to keep returning to love, work, and possibility after loss. Devon Jersild is a writer and psychotherapist in Weybridge, Vermont. She won an O. Henry Award for a story that appeared in the Kenyon Review. Luminous Bodies is her first novel.