Description: "Just as he did with his incomparable Einstein's Dreams , Alan Lightman again surprises us with a work that is utterly original in both form and content. Mr g is a philosophical fable which is at turns hilarious and moving, rendered with a literary hand so deft that the weightiest metaphysical topics levitate into pure delight." Rebecca Newberger Goldstein "It would not seem possible for Alan Lightman to match his earlier tour de force, Einstein's Dreams , but in Mr g he has done so-with wit, imagination, and transcendent beauty." Anita Desai "Here is the creation of the Universe and the young Creator who grapples with what he has made-and ultimately with responsibility and lossa gem of a novel that is strange witty erudite and alive with Lightman's playful genius." Junot Díaz, author of The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao "This delightful novel takes the reader on a light hearted romp through the development of the universe from the Big Bang to its cold dark end, addressing along the way some of the big questions that inevitably arise from the development of intelligent life." Jerome Friedman, Nobel Prize-winning physicist "Though Lightman's clever irreverence recalls Salman Rushdie and Kevin Brockmeier, his plainspoken style lends the book a fitting earnestnessReaders who don't mind the liberties the author takes with the sacred might enjoy this scienced fiction." Library Journal "A touching, imaginative rendition of God's creation of the universethe immortal characters are changed by their brush with the enterprising, however doomed, mortals, bringing this elucidating treatment of quantum physics to an affecting, hopeful conclusion." Publishers Weekly

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