Entanglement

As boys in Baltimore, twin brothers were attacked by bullies; one ran, and the other was beaten so badly he was left brain-damaged and unable to live on his own. The one who ran, now a writer, has carried the guilt ever since and still visits his brother every week. Three strands alternate. In 2011, as a visiting writer at the University of Sydney's Centre for Time, he studies the physics and philosophy of time for a novel and falls in love with Anise, a New Zealand philosopher. In 2019, after another tragedy has broken up his marriage, he answers writing prompts while staying by a lake in New Zealand with other writers. And a time traveller whose memory is failing arrives in 1977 to save his twin.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

268 pages in the original

Genres

Speculative, Family (assigned by AI)

Set in

United States, Australia, New Zealand, 1977–2019

First published

2021 by Mākaro Press

ISBN

9780995111080 (Mākaro Press, New Zealand)