Love and Other Thought Experiments PB_Gift_Guide enthusiasm

enthusiasm

well-mannered

could bring them all their evil hearts’ desire

Each summer Margaret and Rose and Flor and Nisreen come back to the place where they are girls

They are fighting for a better future—and the chance to be together

Love and Other Thought Experiments PB_Gift_Guide enthusiasmThis impressive debut novel, longlisted for the 2020 Booker Prize, takes its premise and inspiration from ten of the best known thought experiments in philosophythe what ifs of philosophical investigationand uses them to talk about love in a wholly unique way. Married couple Rachel and Eliza are considering having a child. Rachel wants one desperately, and Eliza thinks she does, too, but she can't quite seem to wrap her head around the idea. When