“Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.” - Joseph Addison

March is Women's History Month. To celebrate, the Campus Community Book Club will read The Other Einstein, a novel by Marie Benedict.

Description: 

From beloved New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Marie Benedict comes the story of a not-so-famous scientist who not only loved Albert Einstein, but also shaped the theories that brought him lasting renown.

In the tradition of Beatriz Williams and Paula McClain, Marie Benedict's The Other Einstein offers us a window into a brilliant, fascinating woman whose light was lost in Einstein's enormous shadow. This novel resurrects Einstein's wife, a brilliant physicist in her own right, whose contribution to the special theory of relativity is hotly debated. Was she simply Einstein's sounding board, an assistant performing complex mathematical equations? Or did she contribute something more?

Mitza Maric has always been a little different from other girls. Most twenty-year-olds are wives by now, not studying physics at an elite Zurich university with only male students trying to outdo her clever calculations. But Mitza is smart enough to know that, for her, math is an easier path than marriage. Then fellow student Albert Einstein takes an interest in her, and the world turns sideways. Theirs becomes a partnership of the mind and of the heart, but there might not be room for more than one genius in a marriage.

Marie Benedict illuminates one pioneering woman in STEM, returning her to the forefront of history's most famous scientists.

We will meet Wednesday, March 10th at noon via Zoom. Please join us. To receive the Zoom link for this meeting RSVP to this announcement or email mariannesciucco@sunyorange.edu. 

Note: This book is available in a variety of formats through the Ramapo-Catskill Library system and at your favorite online bookstore.