Our Tragic Universe

Meg Carpenter is broke, her novel years overdue. So when a pseudoscientific book promising life everlasting lands on her desk, she jumps at the chance to review it. Thus begins a labyrinthine journey featuring mysterious beasts of the moor, forest fairies, ships-in-bottles, New Age theories of everything, narrative theory, that forces her to ask: Does anyone really want to live forever? Smart and entrancing,Our Tragic Universeis a literary adventure story that finds connections where we didn't know they existed, breaks down conventions that keep us from our destinies, and shows how maybe stories just might save our lives.