Lavender Threads’s Reviews > This Is Chance!: The Shaking of an All-American City, a Voice That Held It Together > Status Update

Oh, dear. —"As Mooallem moved through Genie’s boxes, time itself started to seem like a slow-moving natural disaster, imperceptibly shaking everything apart. Maybe nothing in our world is durable or stable. Maybe everything runs on pure chance. He wondered how we are supposed to live on the surface of such unbearable randomness. What can we hold on to that’s fixed?"