MixedThe Washington Post\"... intelligent, elegant and yet strangely elusive ... the writing is elegant and true. There’s much to recommend here, but in the end the novel feels somewhat less than the sum of its impressive parts. The seven viewpoint characters fail to hold the center, and Oppenheimer remains as vague and enigmatic at the end as he was at the start. This is clearly the point — Oppenheimer loved physics, the journalist tells us, because it brought him \'the realization that the very aim of understanding an individual unit might be inherently impossible\' — but for readers of fiction, it’s a point that doesn’t really satisfy.\
