Further Adventures of the Restless Universe

Dawn Raffel

Dzanc Books, Jun 1, 2013 - Fiction - 100 pages

When Dawn Raffel was a very small child, her father used to read to her nightly from The Restless Universe—a layman’s guide to physics by the Nobel Laureate Max Born. Although she loved the time spent with her father, she didn’t—despite his statements to the contrary—comprehend a word of the physics. It was her first recognition that love so often comes with imperfect understanding.
The twenty-one stories in Further Adventures in the Restless Universe are about fathers, daughters, mothers, sisters, husbands, wives, strangers, lovers, sons, neighbors, kings, death, faith, astronomical phenomena, and the way the heart warps time.  

About the author

Dawn Raffel’s newest book is Further Adventures in the Restless Universe. She is also the author of a novel, Carrying the Body, and a previous collection, In the Year of Long Division. Her stories have appeared in O, The Oprah Magazine, Conjunctions, Black Book, Fence, Open City, The Mississippi Review Prize Anthology, The Anchor Book of New American Short Stories, Arts & Letters, The Quarterly, NOON, and numerous other periodicals and anthologies. She was a fiction editor for many years, followed by a seven-year stint as executive articles editor at O, The Oprah Magazine and three years as editor-at-large at More magazine; she has also taught in the MFA program at Columbia University. She now works part time at Readers Digest as editor-at-large for books, and is completing a memoir. She lives outside New York City with her husband and sons. 

Bibliographic information

• Title: Further Adventures of the Restless Universe
• Author: Dawn Raffel
• Publisher: Dzanc Books, 2013
• ISBN: 1480426687, 9781480426689
• Length: 100 pages
• Subjects: Fiction / Short Stories (single author)