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"Dark Matter"by Blake Crouch
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You know the hypnotic fascination that sets in when you stand between two mirrors, and your reflection seems to go on for infinity? You move your hand, and a thousand other versions of you wave back?
That’s the feeling I got reading “Dark Matter,” Blake Crouch’s twisty-turny thriller that will mess with your sense of reality.
It’s a fast-paced, can’t-stop-turning-the-pages book that I flew through in a weekend. It opens with a kidnapping but takes a quick jerk to the left.
The book follows Jason Dessen, who has put aside his career as a quantum physicist to build a family. Even if his career isn’t what he’d hoped, he’s happy. Content. Comfortable. But when he goes out for a drink at a bar and wakes up to people he doesn’t recognize welcoming him back, he knows something has shifted — and he doesn’t know if he can put it back.
Take a little sci-fi trip to finish up your reading year: Get lost in “Dark Matter.”
-Tracy Mumford
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