Super Short Summary

Set in the Atomic Age, Marianne Wiggins’s novel Evidence of Things Unseen is about a couple, Fos and Opal, who fall in love as the world changes rapidly around them. Fos, a scientist and devotee of technology and everything it holds for the future, is forced to face the impact of new energy systems when his wife falls sick from radiation poisoning after being exposed at the Oak Ridge Laboratory, where Fos has found work. Part romance and part historical look at the way the world changed in the middle of the twentieth century, Evidence of Things Unseen examines the way technology changes the course of individual lives. The novel encompasses themes of war, illness, and the effects of the Great Depression.