Peter Leroy finally completes a junior-high-school science assignment, thirty years late, exploring along the way quantum physics, entropy, epistemology, principles of uncertainty and discontinuity, a range of life’s Big Questions, and his memories of his intoxicating science teacher, Miss Rheingold.
“Warm . . . thought-provoking . . . charming . . . delightful.”
Library Journal (starred review)
“A book designed to leave its readers—and it deserves many of them—as happy as clams.”
Walter Satterthwait, The New York Times Book Review
“Luminously intelligent fun.”
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