TrinityBrilliant . . . Hall has shaped a richly imagined, tremendously moving fictional work. Its genius is not to explain but to embody the science and politics that shaped Oppenheimer's life . . . The resulting quantum portrait feels both true and dazzlingly unfamiliar. New York Times J. Robert Oppenheimerthe father of the atomic bombwas a brilliant scientist, a champion of liberal causes, and a complex and often contradictory character. In Louisa Hall's