Leslie Schover retired from her career in clinical psychology and is enjoying writing fiction. Her first novel will be published in January 2026 by SheWrites Press. Fission: A Novel of Atomic Heartbreak is based on Leslie’s parents’ tales of life in the secret city of Oak Ridge, Tenn., during the Manhattan Project. She was also inspired to write it by revelations that two Soviet atomic spies operated there, working in the same building as her father. Like him, they were both electronics engineers from first-generation immigrant Jewish families. The novel imagines what might have happened if they’d met.
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