Bewilderment: A Novel

Theo Byrne is a promising young astrobiologist who has found a way to search for life on other planets. He is also the widowed father of a most unusual nine-year-old son, Robin, who is on the verge of being expelled from third grade. What can a father do when the only solution offered to his troubled boy is to put him on psychoactive drugs? The only thing for it is to take the boy to other planets, even while fostering his son's desperate campaign to help save this one. Shortlisted for the 2021 Booker Prize. An Oprah's Book Club Selection.