Emily Strasser Speaks the Unspeakable

Project Impulse
Written By Mona Angéline

Half-Life of a Secret by Emily Strasser is easily among my favorite reads of the year. I devoured this story about the author’s grandfather who was a chemical engineer in Oak Ridge—one of three secret cities where the express development of the first atomic bomb falling onto Hiroshima took place. In her incredibly well researched book, Strasser tries to make sense of Oak Ridge's complicated past, as it transformed a place of nature and stability into a source of man-made, unstable destruction.

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Mona Angéline

Mona Angéline is an unapologetically vulnerable writer, reader, book reviewer, artist, athlete, and scientist. She honors the creatively unconventional, the authentically "other". She shares her emotions because the world tends to hide theirs. She is a new writer, but her work was recently accepted in Flash Fiction Magazine, Grand Dame Literary, tiny wren lit, Down in the Dirt Magazine, The Viridian Door, The Machine, Whisky Blot Magazine, and The Academy of Mind and Heart. She loves to review books and has written them for the /tƐmz/ Review, the Ampersand Review, and the Beakful Litblog. Sooner or later she will have to condense this list… Mona is also a regular guest editor for scientific journals although she doesn't use a pen name when her engineering PhD degree is involved. She lives bicoastally in Santa Cruz, California, and in New York and savors life despite, or maybe because of, her significant struggles with chronic illness and mild disability. Learn about her musings at creativerunnings.com. Follow her on Instagram under @creativerunnings and on Twitter at @creativerunning.

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