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Elkins "offers a profusion of visual and philosophical imagination... A deeply unconventional debut, it's an invitation into a teeming imagination."
—John Williams, Washington Post 

Mushrooms and comets, amoeba and crystals, an idyllic but uncanny day in the country: Samuel Emmer is losing grasp of his memories, and relying on a microscope to search for his future. 

Biologist Samuel Emmer’s imagination is spinning out of control. As he confronts an increasingly mystifying and unreliable past, he is also losing sight of his future. Brilliant but lost, Emmer desperately tries to engage with those he cares about: the memory of his grief-stricken mother, obsessed with mycology and cosmology; a potential romance with co-worker Rosie, dependent on healing crystals to feel safe; and the fraying relationship with his older brother, disappearing into the ether of his own success. Iconographic imagery (mushrooms, crystals, country houses, microscopes, technical diagrams, comets, amoeba and idyllic skies) disrupts and diverts the text as the narrative itself fractures into competing voices. In the midst of it all is Samuel Emmer, at risk of vanishing himself. 

The third volume in James Elkins’ landmark multi-volume novel Five Strange Languages, Stories, Like Illnesses is set in time both before and after the events of previously published volumes  (Weak in Comparison to Dreams and A Short Introduction to Anneliese), the ideal entry point to Elkins’ sprawling modern day epic. 

Heartbreaking, hilarious and deeply resonant.