num_pages: 223
description: Gut Symmetries is an appropriate title for a book whose protagonists include Alice and Jove, two theoretical physicists who are conducting a high-voltage adulterous love affair when they are not seeking a Grand Unified Theory of nature. When Alice confronts Jove's wife, Stella, she quickly falls in love with her, resulting in consequences that are by turns horrifying, comic and arousing.
language: English
title: Gut Symmetries
titlecomplete: Gut Symmetries
characters: Jupiter (God)
genres: Fiction, Queer, LGBT, British Literature, Lesbian, Literature, Romance, Novels, Contemporary, Literary Fiction
ratings_count: 4768
awards: awardedAt: 852105600000
name: Orange Prize
category: Fiction Longlist
publisher: Vintage Canada