The Terrible Unlikelihood of Our Being Here - Couverture souple

Antonetta, Susanne Paola

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0814257801 ISBN 13 : 9780814257807

Editeur : Mad Creek Books, 2021

Synopsis

At their family’s New Jersey seaside cottages, Susanne Paola Antonetta’s grandmother led seances, swam nude, and imaginatively created a spiritualist paradise on earth. In The Terrible Unlikelihood of Our Being Here, Antonetta chronicles how in that unique but tightly controlled space, she began to explore the questions posed by her family’s Christian Science beliefs, turning those questions secular: What is consciousness? Does time exist? And does the world we see reflect reality? In this book, scientific research, family story, and memoir intertwine to mimic the indefinable movements of quantum particles.

Antonetta reflects on a life spent wrestling with bipolar disorder, drug dependency, and the trauma of electroshock treatment—exploring these experiences alongside conversations with some of the world’s leading neuroscientists and physicists, and with psychics. The result is a meditation on the legacy of family, on thought and being, and what we humans can actually ever really know about our world.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Susanne Paola Antonetta is the author of Make Me a Mother, Curious Atoms: A History with Physics, Body Toxic: An Environmental Memoir, A Mind Apart: Travels in a Neurodiverse World, a novella, and four books of poetry. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times, the Washington Post, Orion, the New Republic, and elsewhere. She lives in Bellingham, Washington.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Mad Creek Books
• Date d'édition: 2021
• ISBN 10: 0814257801
• ISBN 13: 9780814257807
• Reliure: Broché
• Langue: anglais
• Nombre de pages: 260
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible