A New York Times Book Review Editors\' Choice One of LitHub \'s Most Anticipated Books of 2020 An expansive, radiant, and genre-defying investigation into bonding--and how we are shaped by forces we cannot fully know Is love a force akin to gravity? A kind of invisible fabric which enables communications through space and time? Artist Harry Dodge finds himself contemplating such questions as his father declines from dementia and he rekindles a bewildering but powerful relationship with his birth mother.
Blending the personal and the philosophical, the raw and the surreal, the transgressive and the heartbreaking, Harry Dodge revitalizes our world, illuminating the magic just under the surface of daily life..
It is a wild, incandescent book that creates a literary universe of its own.
Structured around a series of formative, formidable coincidences in Dodge\'s life, My Meteorite journeys with stylistic bravura from Barthes to Blade Runner , from punk to Pale Fire .
A meteorite Dodge orders on eBay becomes a mysterious catalyst for a reckoning with the vital forces of matter, the nature of consciousness, and the bafflements of belonging.
A New York Times Book Review Editors\' Choice One of LitHub \'s Most Anticipated Books of 2020 An expansive, radiant, and genre-defying investigation into bonding--and how we are shaped by forces we cannot fully know Is love a force akin to gravity? A kind of invisible fabric which enables communications through space and time? Artist Harry Dodge finds himself contemplating such questions as his father declines from dementia and he rekindles a bewildering but powerful relationship with his birth mother
