Peter Leroy finally completes a junior-high-school science assignment, thirty years late, exploring along the way quantum physics, entropy, epistemology, principles of uncertainty and discontinuity, a range of life's Big Questions, and his memories of his intoxicating science teacher, Miss Rheingold.
"A magical, funny, healing journey."
Publishers Weekly (starred review)
"Warm . . . thought-provoking . . . charming . . . delightful."
Library Journal (starred review)
"Mr. Kraft is a splendid, smart, funny, slyly sexy, and insightful writer."
The East Hampton Star
"A book designed to leave its readers-and it deserves many of them-as happy as clams."
The New York Times Book Review
"Luminously intelligent fun."
Time
"Goofy and thoroughly enjoyable."
The Cleveland Plain Dealer
"Nothing less than an attempt to comprehend the nature of the universe itself."
The Seattle Times & Post-Intelligencer
"Hilarious."
USA Today
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