Bewilderment A Novel

Richard Powers, Edoardo Ballerini

eAudio - 2021

AN OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB SELECTION Shortlisted for the 2021 Booker PrizeLonglisted for the 2021 National Book Award for FictionA heartrending new novel from the Pulitzer Prize–winning and #1 New York Times best-selling author of The Overstory. I never believed the diagnoses the doctors settled on my son. When a condition gets three different names over as many decades, when it goes from non-existent to the country's most commonly diagnosed childhood disorder in one generation, when two different physicians want to prescribe three different medications, there's something wrong....Theo Byrne is a promising young astrobiologist who has found a way to search for life on other planets dozens of light years away. He is also the widow...ed father of a most unusual nine-year-old. His son, Robin, is funny, loving, and filled with plans. He thinks and feels deeply, adores animals, and can spend hours painting elaborate pictures.... more