num_pages: 368
description: Twelve-year-old Ethan Forsythe an exceptionally talented boy obsessed with physics and astronomy has been raised alone by his mother in Sydney Australia. Claire a former professional ballerina has been a wonderful parent to Ethan but hes becoming increasingly curious about his fathers absence in his life. Claire is fiercely protective of her talented vulnerable sonand of her own feelings. But when Ethan falls ill tied to a tragic event that occurred during his infancy her tightly-held world is split open. Thousands of miles away on the western coast of Australia Mark is trying to forget about the events that tore his family apart but an unexpected call forces him to confront his past and return home. When Ethan secretly intercepts a letter from Mark to Claire he unleashes long-suppressed forces thatlike gravitypull the three together again testing the limits of love and forgiveness. Told from the alternating points of view of Ethan and each of his parents Relativity is a poetic and soul-searing exploration of unbreakable bonds irreversible acts the limits of science and the magnitude of love.
language: English
title: Relativity
publisher: Gallery Books