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Atmospheric Disturbances
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20/05/2008 |
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While everyone else may be fooled, Dr. Leo Liebenstein, a psychiatrist, knows
better. His wife is not his wife. Could it be that his real wife is involved in
some infidelity? But why would infidelity lead to disappearance? Or false
appearance? With nothing for Leo to go on except a potential clue relating to
one of his patients, Harvey—a man who believes he is a secret agent with control
over the weather—he sets off on a humorous and science-steeped odyssey to
unravel the mystery of his missing wife and to resolve Harvey’s “conflict with
the consensus view of reality.”
Moving from New York City to the southern reaches of
Patagonia, Atmospheric Disturbances follows Leo through the innermost
workings of both the revered Royal Academy of Meteorology and the underground
experimental weather sect, the 49 Quantum Fathers.
In this brilliantly inventive and addictive novel, Rivka
Galchen cross-pollinates a laughter-laced literary adventure with a scientific
exploration of the uncontested truths we know are false.
Last December a woman entered my apartment who looked exactly like my
wife. This woman casually closed the door behind her. In an oversized pale blue
purse—Rema’s purse—she was carrying a russet puppy. I did not know the puppy.
And the real Rema, she doesn’t greet dogs on the sidewalk, she doesn’t like dogs
at all. The hayfeverishly fresh scent of Rema’s shampoo was filling the air and
through that brashness I squinted at this woman, and at that small dog,
acknowledging to myself only that something was extraordinarily wrong.
—From Atmospheric Disturbances
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Critical Praise for
Atmospheric Disturbances
“Part thriller, part romance, part autobiography, part psychological study, [Galchen’s]
sweetly skewed brilliance and stealth-bomb sadness will make you swoon with this
realization: yes, these kinds of books are still possible.”
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Heidi Julavits, author of The Uses of Enchantment
“Reader, you are holding in your hands one of my favourite novels ever. . . .
This is a novel of Borgesian erudition, wit and playfulness. It is also as funny
as any episode of The Simpsons. . . . Atmospheric Disturbances
delivers unforgettable joy.”
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Francisco Goldman, author of The Divine Husband
“A powerful novel about love, longing, Doppler radar and the true
appreciation of a nice cookie with your tea. . . . Fantastic.”
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Nathan Englander, author of The Ministry of Special Cases
"What’s real? Who’s who? Can we believe
anything? Hard to say in this story of psychotherapist Leo, who thinks his wife
has been replaced by a doppelgänger. Playful,
disturbing, heartbreaking."
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NOW Magazine
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Atmospheric Disturbances
While everyone else may be fooled, psychiatrist Leo Liebenstein knows better. His wife is not his wife. She is a dead-ringer—a doppelganger—but something is very wrong. This isn’t Rema. Could it be that his wife is involved in some infidelity? But why would infidelity lead to...
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