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290 pages, Paperback
First published March 1, 2014
Is anything truly permanent? Can anything ever be when your own universe can surprise you with something new about itself—correcting a fact you were taught to believe your entire life? The teacher in me wonders what they will do now with the old textbooks, the ones that count the planets in our solar system as nine. The little boy in me feels betrayed by the astronomers, the curtain pulled further back on the limits of science. But the lover in me is optimistic, content that something so cold and distant is perhaps more understandable.
“How can you lose something you thought was forever?”
“My current state had erased and rewritten his [Max's] character flaws and turned them into poetic mannerisms for me to mourn.”
“I had thought I was getting better, but I had underestimated Max’s power. And when I closed my eyes I could still feel his gravitational pull across time and space, holding me within his orbit.”
“An unspoken truth that would weigh upon her until she was ready to confront it: that she was the mother of a gay man.”
“I was hoping to stop things from changing, to have some control over the present. But I can’t. No matter how hard I try, I can’t stop the world from moving forward. I can’t stop anyone from leaving…”