When Dawn Raffel was a very small child, her father used to read to her nightly from The Restless Universe-a layman's guide to physics by the Nobel Laureate Max Born. Although she loved the time spent with her father, she didn't-despite his statements to the contrary-comprehend a word of the physics. It was her first recognition that love so often comes with imperfect understanding. The 21 stories in Further Adventures in the Restless Universe are about fathers, daughters, mothers, sisters, husbands, wives, strangers, lovers, sons, neighbors, kings, death, faith, astronomical phenomena, and the way the heart warps time.
"Raffel's stripped-to-the-bone prose is a model of economy and grace."
Publisher's Weekly
"Dawn Raffel's stories are like prismatic drops of rain, hanging from the edge of a roof or sliding down a windshield, reflecting an entire world within. The language of motherhood, of adulthood, of childhood - the language of family and individual - has never been like this. Sly and probing, with the sting of precision and pain."
Susan Straight
"These stories promise more life. Take them to heart!"
