Gravity Is the Thing: A Novel MP3 CD – MP3 Audio, July 23, 2019

The adult debut from bestselling, award-winning young adult author Jaclyn Moriarty a frequently hilarious, brilliantly observed novel in the spirit of Maria Semple, Rainbow Rowell, and Gail Honeyman that follows a single mother s heartfelt search for greater truths about the universe, her family and herself.Twenty years ago, Abigail Sorenson s brother Robert went missing one day before her sixteenth birthday, never to be seen again. That same year, she began receiving scattered chapters in the mail of a self-help manual, the Guidebook, whose anonymous author promised to make her life soar to heights beyond her wildest dreams.The Guidebook s missives have remained a constant in Abi s life a befuddling yet oddly comforting voice through her family s grief over her brother s disappearance, a move across continents, the devastating dissolution of her marriage, and the new beginning as a single mother and café owner in Sydney.Now, two decades after receiving those first pages, Abi is invited to an all-expenses paid weekend retreat to learn the truth about the Guidebook. It s an opportunity too intriguing to refuse. If Everything is Connected, then surely the twin mysteries of the Guidebook and a missing brother must be linked? What follows is completely the opposite of what Abi expected but it will lead her on a journey of discovery that will change her life and enchant listeners. Gravity Is the Thing is a smart, unusual, wickedly funny novel about the search for happiness that will break your heart into a million pieces and put it back together, bigger and better than before. Read more