Bewilderment: Shortlisted for the Booker Prize 2021

THE BRAND NEW NOVEL FROM THE PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING BOOKER PRIZE-SHORTLISTED AUTHOR OF THE OVERSTORYIt changed how I thought about the Earth and our place in it. . . . It changed how I see things and thats always for me a mark of a book worth reading. Barack Obama on The OverstoryReally just one of the best novels period. Ann Patchett on The OverstoryBreathtaking. Barbara Kingsolver on The Overstory_________________________Picked as one of the Best Books of 2021 in the Sunday TimesTheo Byrne is a promising young astrobiologist who has found a way to search for life on other planets dozens of light years away. He is also the widowed father of a most unusual nine-year-old. His son Robin is funny loving and filled with plans. He thinks and feels deeply adores animals and can spend hours painting elaborate pictures. He is also on the verge of being expelled from third grade for smashing his friends face with a metal thermos.What can a father do when the only solution offered to his rare and troubled boy is to put him on psychoactive drugs? What can he say when his boy comes to him wanting an explanation for a world that is clearly in love with its own destruction? The only thing for it is to take the boy to other planets while all the while fostering his sons desperate campaign to help save this one._________________________The best book Ive read in 10 years. A remarkable piece of literature ... a lodestone. Emma Thompson on The OverstoryRadical and exciting. Jessie Burton on The OverstoryA remarkable piece of fiction. New York Times on The OverstoryAn extraordinary novel. Guardian on The Overstory