RSS A Cure for Gravity, by Arthur Rosenfeld
Filed in Blog, ReviewsThis has to have been one of the most satisfying novels I have read in a very long time. It was a thing of beauty.
| The plot and the writing are crafted, not just written; it’s a story of diverse threads of life coming together in the most unusual, unexpected of ways. On the surface this is about a cross-country motorcycle trip, an experience that the author creates beautifully with obvious relish and personal experience. Two diverse characters — Mercury Gant, a man haunted by his past and Umberto Santana, a young bank robber — find themselves thrown-quite literally-together; piece by piece their reasons for traveling, their hopes and their fears are unraveled. |
Despite their differences the two quickly become friends, though the path of this friendship is less than straightforward. And yet, somehow, by being together they start to mesh. This is a tale of coincidences and of healing, of the way seemingly unrelated facts all become part of the warp and weft of a plot and a life.
I found myself loving this book because it plugged deep into my personal philosophy of the inconnectedness of things, how nothing is separate, really, and how if you start to trace the threads, one thing leads to another in all sorts of twisted ways. The fact that it’s a great motorcycle road trip is almost, but not quite, incidental. ;)
Slowly, piece by piece, the characters’ stories open up and we realize what part the other characters have in the main warp and weft of this tale. Whether it’s Eagle, the investigator who for some reason wants to protect Umberto or the little blind girl who loses her way and ends up talking to the ghost of her grandfather, the living and the dead all have something to do in this absolutely unique book. The memory of this story, the sense of peace it brings, lingers long after the last page is read.
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