From Olivie Blake, the New York Times bestselling author of The Atlas Six, comes a literary, intimate study of time, space, and the nature of love.
Could six conversations with a stranger be the variable that shakes up the entire simulation?.
Without them, the entire framework of his existence would collapse.
For Regan and Aldo, life has been a matter of resigning themselves to the blueprints of inevitability―until the two meet.
He gets through his days by erecting a wall of routine: a backbeat of rules and formulas that keep him going.
She copes with the dreariness of existence by living impulsively, imagining a new, alternate timeline being created in the wake of every rash decision.
To Aldo, the world feels disturbingly chaotic.
But this is not a story about endings.
For Regan, people are predictable and tedious, including and perhaps especially herself.
By the end of the story, these things will still be true.
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.
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 Art Institute by chance.
From Olivie Blake, the New York Times bestselling author of The Atlas Six, comes a literary, intimate study of time, space, and the nature of love