Atmospheric Disturbances

By Rivka Galchen format: hardcover publication: May 2008 ISBN: 9781554680542

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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.

Shortlisted for the 2008 Rogers Writer's Trust Fiction Prize.

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