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Bewilderment
A Literary Fiction Novel by Richard Powers
Subgenres:
- Parent-Child Relationships,
- Grief,
- Climate Fiction
This book is for you if you're into...
- Parent-child stories with science and cosmic wonder woven in
- Neurofeedback and experimental treatments as emotional lifelines
- Nature writing that aches for endangered species and lost worlds
AN OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB SELECTION. An Instant New York Times Bestseller. Shortlisted for the 2021 Booker Prize. Longlisted for the 2021 National Book Award for Fiction. Longlisted for the 2022 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction.
A heartrending new novel from the Pulitzer Prize–winning and #1 New York Times best-selling author of The Overstory. The astrobiologist Theo Byrne searches for life throughout the cosmos while single-handedly raising his unusual nine-year-old, Robin, following the death of his wife.
Robin is a warm, kind boy who spends hours painting elaborate pictures of endangered animals. He’s also about to be expelled from third grade for smashing his friend in the face. As his son grows more troubled, Theo hopes to keep him off psychoactive drugs.
He learns of an experimental neurofeedback treatment to bolster Robin’s emotional control, one that involves training the boy on the recorded patterns of his mother’s brain…
With its soaring descriptions of the natural world, its tantalizing vision of life beyond, and its account of a father and son’s ferocious love, Bewilderment marks Richard Powers’s most intimate and moving novel.
At its heart lies the question: How can we tell our children the truth about this beautiful, imperiled planet?
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