num_pages: 224
description: When high school junior Tommy Smythe goes missing everyone has a theory about what happened to him. Tommy was adopted so maybe he ran away to find his birth parents. He was an odd kid often deeply involved in his own thoughts about particle physics so maybe he just got distracted and wandered off. He was last seen at a pull-out off the highway so maybe someone drove up and snatched him. Or maybe he slipped into a parallel universe. Tommy believes that everything is possible and that until something can be proven false it is possibly true. So as long as Tommys whereabouts are undetermined he could literally be anywhere.Told in a series of first-person narratives from people who knew Tommy and third-person chapters about people who find the things Tommy left behindhis red motorbike his driving goggles pages from his notebookParticles explores themes of loneliness connectedness and the role we play in creating our own realities.
language: English
title: Evidence of Things Not Seen
publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)