Book Jacket Summary: Junior Thibodeau grows up in rural Maine in a time of Atari, baseball cards, pop Catholicism and cocaine. He also knows something no one else knows—neither his exalted parents nor his baseball-savant brother nor the love of his life (she doesn’t believe him anyway): the world will end when he is thirty-six. While Junior searches for meaning in a doomed world, his loved ones tell an all-American family saga of fathers and sons, blinding romance, lost love, and reconcilation—culminating in one final triumph that reconfigures the universe. A tour de force of storytelling, Everything Matters! is a genre-bending potpourri of alternative history, sci-fi, and the great American tale in the tradition of John Irving and Margaret Atwood.
Similar to: Kurt Vonnegut, Faulkner’s “The Sound and the Fury”
Highlights:
--morbid, dark humor
--science fiction that people who much prefer literary fiction will actually enjoy
--this book makes you THINK…the ending just might change the way you look at the world and your role in it
As a physicist I can confirm that according to the most recent theories, everything does in fact matter. Also I'm sorry I haven't been following you as well as I should, please accept the following 16 comments as an apology.
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