Her entry begins:I am an equal opportunity believer. I believe in tarot cards and science. This might explain why I’m so completely obsessed with this book called Weird Life: the Search for Life That is Very Very Different From Our Own by David Toomey. I know a few quantum physicists and they all tell me that the universe is far stranger than we can ever imagine, and this wonderful book supports that. Toomey delves into biology, science, physics and more in a way that’s as accessible as it is fascinating. He talks about parallel universes, how life might not look anything like what we imagine, and how (this one kept me up at night), we might actually be...[read on]About Is This Tomorrow, from the publisher:
In 1956, Ava Lark rents a house with her twelve-year-old son, Lewis, in a desirable Boston suburb. Ava is beautiful, divorced, Jewish, and a working mom. She findsView the trailer for Is This Tomorrow, and learn more about the book and author at Caroline Leavitt's website and blog.her neighbors less than welcoming. Lewis yearns for his absent father, befriending the only other fatherless kids: Jimmy and Rose. One afternoon, Jimmy goes missing. The neighborhood—in the throes of Cold War paranoia—seizes the opportunity to further ostracize Ava and her son.
Years later, when Lewis and Rose reunite to untangle the final pieces of the tragic puzzle, they must decide: Should you tell the truth even if it hurts those you love, or should some secrets remain buried?
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