As She Climbed Across the Table

Phillip Engstrand, the narrator of this novel, is an anthropologist who is in love with a physicist who falls in love with a black hole. That is the premise of this story, and goofy as it, the novel is a compelling, entertaining, and perhaps even enlightening look at the heady territory of particle physics, the nature of human obsession, and the chasm between the academic cultures of the sciences and humanities.