Back
Richard Powers: Bewilderment (Hardcover, 2021, W. W. Norton & Company)

The astrobiologist Theo Byrne searches for life throughout the cosmos while single-handedly raising his unusual …

I wanted to like this book, it was easy to read and had a forward, propulsive style. But the wife as saint character felt two dimensional, and the autism as savant once managed felt like a trope too. Some cool ideas and good structure, but just felt… preachy and misanthropic which is a shame.