No good life is free from unease, because unease is the start of exploration.
Summary - A speculative fiction novel about a quantum physicist, Noah, who joins a secret time-travel project in a desert lab to revisit his deceased daughter, while his artist wife, Maya, gets drawn into the lab’s mysteries and her own past. The book explores themes of love, grief, memory, and the nature of time, blending science fiction with a deeply human story about loss and connection. It’s praised for its emotional depth, complex characters, and genre-bending narrative.
This book was so well written and thought provoking! Also, just another example of not letting a book with a lower rating cause you to not read it. I think the lower rating on this one has to do the genre bending, although that’s what I loved about it – a scifi element with literary fiction, loooove.
Do you let lower ratings dictate what you read? Have you read this one, if you haven’t I highly recommend it.
Thank you @prh for the listening copy – I enjoyed the audio but I definitely needed the physical for the few super science-y parts.
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