ATOMIC MOTHERby Rachel Barenbaum Timing is everything, or so they say. In the case of Rachel Barenbaum’s new novel “Atomic Anna” – Beginning on April 26, 1986, with Chernobyl’s Reactor No. 4 disintegrating, releasing “the most dangerous substances known to man” – timing is literally everything: The blast marks Anna Berkova, the chief engineer of …

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