N.M. Kelby's book "Theater of the Stars" is described as "a novel of physics and memory." It's the story of a daughter dealing with her mother's attempted suicide. She learns a lot about her mother's life, and her own history too. The story travels from war-torn Paris in the early 1940's to the labs at Los Alamos as scientists develop the atomic bomb. It continues to the present day and the global shocks caused by September 11th. Kelby told Minnesota Public Radio's Euan Kerr that like all good stories, it came from real life.