"From the New York Times bestselling author of The Atlas Six comes an intimate and contemporary study of time, space, and the nature of love. Alone with You in the Ether explores what it means to be unwell, and how to face the fractures of yourself and still love as if you're not broken. CHICAGO, SOMETIME-- Two people meet in the armory of the Art Institute by chance. Prior to their encounter, he is a doctoral student who manages his destructive thoughts with compulsive calculations about time travel; she is a bipolar counterfeit artist undergoing court-ordered psychotherapy. By the end of the story, these things will still be true. But this is not a story about endings. For Regan, life is a finish line of mutually assured disappointment. Her method of coping with the dreariness of existence is to project herself into imagined multipotency, spinning new threads of destiny with every impulsive decision she makes. For Aldo, life is a plague of constancy--a structure of rules and formulas that keep him going, without which the entire frame of his existence would collapse. For both of them, life is a matter of resigning themselves to the blueprints of inevitability, until six conversations with a stranger form the variable that glitches the entire simulation" -- Provided by publisher
OCLC:
(OCoLC)1319647259
LCCN:
2023037991
Locations:
GBPF771 -- Ankeny Kirkendall Public Library (Ankeny)
YTPG232 -- Clinton Public Library (Clinton)
JBPC145 -- Coon Rapids Public Library (Coon Rapids)
TDPH826 -- Davenport Public Library (Davenport)
GOPG641 -- Marshalltown Public Library (Marshalltown)
KWPE446 -- Mount Pleasant Public Library (Mount Pleasant)
HRPE845 -- Sioux Center Public Library (Sioux Center)
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