Tom Perrotta calls it

"Very smart and touching and unexpected.”

And The Washington Post says

“[Grodstein has] fashioned in her smart, assured third novel, The Explanation for Everything, . . . a gripping tale of a biologist who finds himself approaching midlife and suddenly finding faith . . . Grodstein’s real gift is her emotional precision . . . Finding or losing God proves to be an equally destabilizing tectonic shift, and this novel is full of them . . . Their cumulative force will leave you happily unsteady, and moved.”

Monologue topics: psychic burden, fear, anxiety, Sisyphus, insomnia, failure, dying alone.

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