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Sebastian Ritscher |
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GRAVITY IS THE THING
A smart, wickedly funny, break-your-heart novel about missing persons, single motherhood, happiness, and the self-help industry.
Abigail Sorenson's brother Robert went missing when she was fifteen years old. That same year she began receiving scattered chapters in the mail of a "we help" manual, the Guidebook. If you read this book, the Guidebook promised, and follow its instructions, your life will soar to heights beyond your wildest dreams. Its chapters have remained a constant in her life - a befuddling yet oddly comforting voice through her brother's inexplicable disappearance, a move across continents, the devastating dissolution of her marriage, and the beginnings of her life as a single mother in Sydney.
She has never known exactly why she was chosen to receive these chapters. Why sometimes their arrival aligns so perfectly with her life that the pages feel like manifestations of her own thoughts. Why she has followed their instructions, the simple tasks they sometimes requested of her, without serious question. Why, every year, she has posted to the mysterious return address her own reflection on her year since past. Why she has always chosen to continue instead of simply opting out.
Now, twenty years later, Abi receives an invitation to an all-expenses paid weekend retreat to learn "the truth" about the Guidebook -- an opportunity too intriguing to refuse. If Everything is connected, then surely the twin mysteries of the Guidebook and a missing brother must be linked? If Abigail follows the one impossible path, surely it will cross that other, bigger impossibility and bring her missing brother back to her?
Jaclyn Moriarty grew up in Sydney, Australia, with five siblings (including author Liane Moriarty). She studied law at the University of Sydney, Yale, and Cambridge, and worked as an entertainment lawyer before she wrote the Ashbury High YA novels. She was previously married to Canadian writer Colin McAdam, and they have one young son, Charlie. She currently lives in Sydney. GRAVITY IS THE THING is her first novel for adults.
She has never known exactly why she was chosen to receive these chapters. Why sometimes their arrival aligns so perfectly with her life that the pages feel like manifestations of her own thoughts. Why she has followed their instructions, the simple tasks they sometimes requested of her, without serious question. Why, every year, she has posted to the mysterious return address her own reflection on her year since past. Why she has always chosen to continue instead of simply opting out.
Now, twenty years later, Abi receives an invitation to an all-expenses paid weekend retreat to learn "the truth" about the Guidebook -- an opportunity too intriguing to refuse. If Everything is connected, then surely the twin mysteries of the Guidebook and a missing brother must be linked? If Abigail follows the one impossible path, surely it will cross that other, bigger impossibility and bring her missing brother back to her?
Jaclyn Moriarty grew up in Sydney, Australia, with five siblings (including author Liane Moriarty). She studied law at the University of Sydney, Yale, and Cambridge, and worked as an entertainment lawyer before she wrote the Ashbury High YA novels. She was previously married to Canadian writer Colin McAdam, and they have one young son, Charlie. She currently lives in Sydney. GRAVITY IS THE THING is her first novel for adults.
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Published 2019-10-01 by HarperCollins |