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Would you like to know how the universe works? Scientists have been asking that question for a long time and have found that many of the answers can be found in the study of particle physics, the field that focuses on those impossibly tiny particles with unbelievably strange names - the hadrons and leptons, baryons and mesons, muons and gluons - so mystifying to the rest of us.

A wooden box passes from mother to son, and inside it: a Relief Society pin, a ship's log, a train ticket gone soft at the folds, a child's knit bootie. Each object holds a story—and each story holds a family. The Things She Kept moves across six generations and more than a century, from a farmer's workshop in nineteenth-century England, where a family finds the Mormon faith and decides to cross an ocean for it, to a wagon train bound for the Utah Territory, to a lumber yard in a small Utah town, to a gray mining shack in the mountains of northern Idaho.