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88/100Author:
Hugh Raffles
Publisher:
Pantheon
Date:
August 25, 2020
When Hugh Rafflesâs two sisters died suddenly within a few weeks of each other, he reached for rocks, stones, and other seemingly solid objects as anchors in a world unmoored, as ways to make sense of these events through stories far larger than his own. As Raffles follows these fundamental objects, unearthing the events theyâve engendered, he finds them losing their solidity and becoming as capricious, indifferent, and willful as time itself.
What The Reviewers Say
... among the most mysterious books I’ve ever read — a dense, dark star.
...a spellbinding time travelogue.
In a high-voltage jolt of insight, Mr. Raffles converts what might seem a dry scientific concept into a potent literary metaphor to help anyone whose sense of time has been fractured by loss.
A work of poetic science, a smashing together of the human and the natural world, of cultures separated by time. Just as a geologic unconformity, this is erudite and artistic..
