{"product_id":"in-universes-a-novel-isbn-9780063314870","title":"In Universes: A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e*Shortlisted for the Brooklyn Public Library Book Prize in Fiction*\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNEW YORK TIMES' 10 BEST SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY BOOKS OF THE YEAR\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn \u003ci\u003eEsquire \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eLiterary Hub \u003c\/i\u003eBest Science Fiction and Fantasy Book of the Year  • An \u003ci\u003eAutostraddle \u003c\/i\u003eBest Queer Book of 2024  • A Best Pride Read by \u003ci\u003ePeople\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eBrit + Co\u003c\/i\u003e  • A \u003ci\u003eParade \u003c\/i\u003eBest New Book Release  • A Best New Science Fiction Book by \u003ci\u003eNew Scientist \u003c\/i\u003e  • A Most Anticipated Book of 2024 by \u003ci\u003eTor.com, Bustle\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eLiterary Hub,\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eAutostraddle\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eGizmodo, IGN, \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eLilith Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e  •  Winner of the Otherwise Award  • Long-listed for the VCU Cabell First Novelist Award \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFor fans of Emily St. John Mandel and Kelly Link, a kaleidoscopic debut literary science fiction novel set in numerous universes, which follows a queer physicist’s search for belonging across time and space.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRaffi works in an observational cosmology lab, searching for dark matter and trying to hide how little they understand their own research. Every chance they get, they escape to see Britt, a queer sculptor who fascinates them for reasons they also can’t—or won’t—understand. As Raffi’s carefully constructed life begins to collapse, they become increasingly fixated on the multiverse—a core conceit in this moving work of speculative fiction—and the idea that somewhere, there may be a universe where they mean as much to Britt as Britt does to them . . . and just like that, Raffi and Britt are thirteen years old, on the cusp of friendship, and maybe something more.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA meditation on self-destruction and reconstruction, \u003ci\u003eIn Universes \u003c\/i\u003eis a mind-bending tour across parallel worlds, each an answer to the question of what Raffi’s life would be like if they\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003ehad made slightly different choices. The universes grow increasingly strange as Raffi flees the ever-present specter of guilt: women fracture into hordes of animals; alien-possessed bears prowl apocalyptic landscapes. But across worlds, Raffi—with their sometimes-friends, sometimes-lovers Britt, Kay, and Graham—reaches for a life that feels authentically their own.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBlending realism with science fiction, \u003ci\u003eIn Universes\u003c\/i\u003e explores the thirst for genius, the fluidity of gender and identity, and the pull of despair against the desire to lead a meaningful life, insisting on the transgressive power of hope even in the darkest of times.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Baffingly good.\" \u003c\/b\u003e– \u003cb\u003eJordy Rosenberg, author of \u003ci\u003eConfessions of the Fox\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"\u003c\/i\u003eA miracle of physics and art.\" \u003c\/b\u003e– \u003cb\u003e Julia Phillips, author of \u003ci\u003eDisappearing Earth\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat happens when the search for a different life fractures reality itself?\u003c\/p\u003e | \u003cp\u003e\"\u003cem\u003eIn Universes \u003c\/em\u003eis a dazzling and inventive exploration of the many people we might become, the possibilities we might discover, and the heartbreak we can't run from. This novel is a breathtaking introduction to a brilliant new voice.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eDanielle Evans, award-winning author of The Office of Historical Corrections\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“This is a hopeful and meaningful novel that asks readers to reconsider their own pasts, presents, and futures. . . \u003cem\u003eIn Universes \u003c\/em\u003eis perfect for sci-fi fans, and those [who] may be new to the genre.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eScreen Rant, 15 Best Sci-Fi Books of 2024\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Raffi, a non-binary physicist studying dark matter, is the protagonist in this beautifully strange multiverse novel. Like all brilliant science fiction, \u003cem\u003eIn Universes\u003c\/em\u003e uses its speculative premise to investigate hard questions about our so-called real world. . . . Emet North’s debut is a stunner, announcing their arrival in queer SF with a (big) bang.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eAutostraddle, The Best Queer Books of 2024\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“North’s debut novel is an inventive, mind-bending literary science fiction that delves into mental health, queerness, Judaism, love, and more as it explores parallel universes. . . .this slim novel is a wonderfully immersive and vivid read.”  - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eIGN\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Quantum mechanics takes centre stage in \u003cem\u003eIn Universes\u003c\/em\u003e, where a physicist named Raffi finds themselves bouncing through alternate realities. This novel explores the implications of parallel timelines and the choices that define our lives, all while maintaining a deeply personal and emotional core.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eWomen and Home Magazine (South Africa), 6 Sci-Fi Books You Need to Read This Year\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“\u003cem\u003eIn Universes\u003c\/em\u003e is an achingly tender examination of a \u003cem\u003ewhat if – \u003c\/em\u003ea character study that follows Raffi from universe to universe, possibility to possibility. . . . [this] is a deceptively delicate book, its gorgeous prose and restrained storylines slowly unspooling to reveal a powerful, poignant whole. . . . North fully embraces every creative freedom that parallel universes afford. In their hands, anything is possible.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eStarburst (UK)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“[A] moving, fracturing debut . . . . In elegant, precise prose, North balances the loss and uncertainty of Raffi’s varied existences with tenderness and sheer possibility.”  - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eEsquire, Best Sci-Fi Books of 2024\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“In the sci-fi\/literary novel \u003cem\u003eIn Universes, \u003c\/em\u003ethe \u003cem\u003eSliding Doors \u003c\/em\u003epeek into the road not taken becomes real. . . . Dizzying, romantic and a handy primer on the multiverse.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eParade, Best New Book Releases\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“[A] time-bending, mind-expanding novel.” \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePeople\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e“\u003c\/strong\u003eA multilayered look at the infinite possibilities of one’s actions, \u003cem\u003eIn Universes\u003c\/em\u003e gives the reader much more than the usual sci-fi multiverse scenario shenanigans we’ve come to associate with \u003cem\u003eStar Trek\u003c\/em\u003e or the MCU. Emet North’s debut is, in fact, quite stunning.”  - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ebuzz mag (UK)\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Pronouns shift gracefully over the course of the novel from “she” to “they”—the plural encompassing both the experience of Raffi’s ever-evolving gender identity, as well as the many versions of themselves across the multiverse. The book works in the Whitmanesque sense of multitudes; it works in the Moore-ish \u003cem\u003eAnagram\u003c\/em\u003e sense; it works because the writing is elegant and wise and dripping with heart-rending beauty about the feelings of being in and out of time, place, body, and love.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eElectric Literature\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“This book really took my breath away!” \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eGabrielle Korn, author of Yours for the Taking and The Shutouts\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e“This spellbinding novel moves across infinitely branching realities to uncover the deepest truths about our relationships. . . . While darkness lurks across worlds and in dangerous choices, this is ultimately a hopeful view of the power of human connection, no matter the cost or the reality.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“North’s debut is a surreal sci-fi-tinged book about parallel worlds and trying to find a place to fit in. It is unlike anything else I’ve ever read. \u003cem\u003eIn Universes\u003c\/em\u003e completely left my jaw on the floor and moved me in ways a book hasn’t made me feel in a long time.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eDebutiful\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Bafflingly good. \u003cem\u003eIn Universes\u003c\/em\u003e is an exhilarating, disorienting fabulist extravaganza to which we can only, and happily, submit. But it is also, secretly—and brilliantly—kind of a meta-novel about the melancholia of science fiction itself.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eJordy Rosenberg, author of Confessions of the Fox\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"In a feat of narrative structure both dazzling and convincing, North gives us deep and emotionally complex access to one human being’s journey across the multiverse, makes us think deeply about our own unchosen doorways, redefines realism as they kick its ass. \u003cem\u003eIn Universes\u003c\/em\u003e is a wonder of a novel.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePam Houston, author of Deep Creek: Finding Hope In the High Country\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Daring, brilliant, and revelatory, \u003cem\u003eIn Universes\u003c\/em\u003e scatters its characters’ stories across the multiverse, showing us every one of the infinite lives we might live. It’s a miracle of physics and art, filled with wonder and grief, hope and regret, survival and romance and loss. By its end, we know: the best of all possible worlds is this one where we get to read Emet North’s writing.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eJulia Phillips, bestselling author of Disappearing Earth\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“North’s book is absolutely of the contemporary moment, fresh and surprising. . . . Displaying a deep humanism, lacking any kind of tendentious impulses, it explores the socially-embedded variable sexuality, and matters of will and kismet, of its protagonist with a kind of amiable, melancholy curiosity. . . .North’s prose throughout every section is both understated and poetic, full of gravitas yet unpretentious. . . . In the end, North’s debut novel succeeds in conveying the mutability and precariousness of existence.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eLocus Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Emet North beautifully fractures the veil between genres, weaving a kaleidoscopic journey of identity, love, and the choices that make us. This is a multiverse where both tender and painful childhood memories echo through the dark matter of adulthood and finds its way to post-apocalyptic gardens of the dead. An assured and wildly imaginative debut that never loses its heart in any of its realities.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSequoia Nagamatsu, bestselling author of How High We Go in the Dark\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Beautiful and surreal, \u003cem\u003eIn Universes\u003c\/em\u003e is a tenderly-crafted maze that brims with emotion—despair and regret, love and hope—as it wrestles with the endless seeking of self and the ‘what-ifs’ that define a life.”  - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eFonda Lee, author of The Green Bone Saga and winner of the World Fantasy Award\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"\u003cem\u003eIn Universes\u003c\/em\u003e is an explosion of creative beauty and heart. Emet North is a massively talented writer arriving ready to awe.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, New York Times bestselling author of Chain-Gang All-Stars\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"\u003cem\u003eIn Universes \u003c\/em\u003ehas a wonderous way of taking the full expanse of the heart (vast! unending!) and collapsing it into a jeweled beauty you can hold in your hands. This novel is brainy and surprising and—in a cartwheeling, star-spinning way—completely real.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eRamona Ausubel, author of The Last Animal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“A soul-stirring debut. . . . This crackling chronicle of queer love is a must read.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly, starred review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e“\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003eIn Universes \u003c\/em\u003eis a magical, bighearted, genre-jumping ode to queerness and the breaking and re-making of reality.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBustle, “This Spring’s Most Anticipated Books”\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Harper","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44890629439717,"sku":"NP9780063314870","price":26.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780063314870.jpg?v=1730233723","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/in-universes-a-novel-isbn-9780063314870","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}