"The House At Otowi Bridge"
The House at Otowi Bridge is the story of Edith Warner, a Philadelphia woman –daughter of a Baptist minister—who travels west in search of a place she can feel at home. Edith settles among the San Ildefonso Pueblo Indians of Northern New Mexico, opens a tearoom in the desert, and becomes involved in arguably the most important event of our time–the building of the Atomic Bomb at Los Alamos.
It’s the story of a woman on a spiritual journey. It’s the story of two sides of the American psyche colliding—the indigenous Native Americans and the scientists who, in order to save the world, could destroy it.
But because every great story is a love story, this one is too: Edith is caught between her connection for two extraordinary men on opposite sides of the most dangerous moment in human history – an Elder and traditional Pueblo dancer named Tilano, and the Nobel Prize-winning Danish physicist, Niels Bohr.
Main Characters
Neils Bohr
Niels Bohr…Nobel Laureate from Denmark who escapes Copenhagen just ahead of the Nazis.
The Father of Modern Physics.
The most revered scientist at Los Alamos.
Maria Martinez
World renown potter and artist and member of the San Ildefonso Pueblo.
Edith Warner
Our Main Character and Heroine of the Story
Robert Oppenheimer
“The Father of the A-Bomb”, and Director of The Manhattan Project.
He arranges it so Edith’s tearoom is where A-list scientists go for dinner.
Tilano
Elder and traditional Pueblo dance from the San Ildefonso Pueblo
After traveling the world in Wild West Shows he returns home and befriends Edith.
General Groves
The U.S. Army General who oversees the top secret project to build the Atomic Bomb.
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