{"product_id":"9781250888181","title":"Alone with You in the Ether","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom Olivie Blake, the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eThe Atlas Six\u003c\/i\u003e, comes a literary, intimate study of time, space, and the nature of love. \u003ci\u003eAlone with You in the Ether\u003c\/i\u003e explores what it means to be unwell, and how to face the fractures of yourself and still love as if you're not broken.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHICAGO, SOMETIME—\u003cbr\u003eTwo people meet in the Art Institute by chance. Prior to their encounter, he is a doctoral student who manages his destructive thoughts with compulsive calculations about time travel; she is a bipolar counterfeit artist, undergoing court-ordered psychotherapy. By the end of the story, these things will still be true. But this is not a story about endings.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFor Regan, people are predictable and tedious, including and perhaps especially herself. She copes with the dreariness of existence by living impulsively, imagining a new, alternate timeline being created in the wake of every rash decision.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTo Aldo, the world feels disturbingly chaotic. He gets through his days by erecting a wall of routine: a backbeat of rules and formulas that keep him going. Without them, the entire framework of his existence would collapse. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFor Regan and Aldo, life has been a matter of resigning themselves to the blueprints of inevitability—until the two meet. Could six conversations with a stranger be the variable that shakes up the entire simulation?\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Olivie Blake","offers":[{"title":"Tor\/Forge |  Paperback \/ softback | Trade paperback (US) |  2023-10-24","offer_id":44227453026559,"sku":"9781250888181","price":24.99,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0329\/9075\/7001\/files\/BNCImageAPI_b72fe714-c5d3-4fc5-83c9-0ea1fe504d69.jpg?v=1692894412","url":"https:\/\/riverbookshop.com\/products\/9781250888181","provider":"River Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}