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REVIEWS: "Heartbreaking and hilarious" Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

From BookLife: "Alive with mad inventions, scientific breakthroughs, a wicked sense of play...Lovers of thoughtful, humane science fiction steeped in weird science will feast... [A] thrillingly inventive novel of growing up the son of a mad scientist."

This book is about a bright and lonely child, given many gifts and many challenges. This book is about a love of science, even while recognizing that scientists are as imperfect as everyone else; maybe even more so. This book is bursting with ideas, wanting to share them with the world but afraid no one else wants to hear them.  This book is about the search for truth and love. This book is a picaresque, wandering from one science-themed adventure to another. This book is about joy, and this is book is also about darkness, and this book is also about the absurdities of life. This book includes quantum mechanics, particle accelerators, chemical and medical experimentation, math, bullies, childhood crushes, literature, faculty meetings, families, terrible bosses, grief, failure, radioactivity, and kindness from unexpected places.

If some topics are sensitive for you, be aware that the story touches on themes of cancer, alcoholism, self-harm, animal experimentation, and, yes, science.

You can purchase this through the following:

Amazon (Kindle) (paperback)  NOTE: The cheaper paperback edition pays straight to me (after Amazon's cut). The $19.99 is sold through IngramSpark, a lovely print-on-demand, but they also take their cut. It took me a long while before I realized this.

Barnes & Noble (paperback)(e-book) Same thing as for Amazon

iTunes/Apple books