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Join us on Zoom for a conversation with author Kara Gnodde about her new novel, The Theory of (Not Quite) Everything.
This event will be broadcast live on Zoom. Registration and an email address are required to receive the link to participate.
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About the author:
Kara Gnodde was born in Johannesburg and raised on a diet of Dr. Seuss and no TV. After graduating from the University of Cape Town, she joined Saatchi & Saatchi in London as a strategic planner—work that required head and heart, her favorite kind. She lived in Japan, Hong Kong, and Singapore before settling back in the UK with her husband and three children. A discussion on the radio about a math problem that could change the world, or perhaps just help keep her desk tidy, gave her a place to start The Theory of (Not Quite) Everything, her debut novel.
In The Theory of (Not Quite) Everything, Mimi Brotherton—orphan and sister of a mathematical genius—is used to defining herself according to others. Bound together by the tragic deaths of their parents, she and her older brother, Art, share the family home and a strong, if unequal, relationship; Mimi is there whenever Art needs her, supporting his academic peaks and talking him out of his emotional valleys.
When she decides that she’d like to get out in the world and maybe even find a boyfriend, Art is cautiously supportive, as long as his sister is searching for love using the mathematical methods he’s laid out for her. But when Mimi meets Frank, another mathematician, Art is instantly suspicious. Frank seems affable enough, but he’s also trying to find an answer for a famous, previously unsolvable math problem—a problem Art has been on the cusp of solving for years. Is Frank using Mimi so that he can get a look at Art’s notes, or is Art just terrified at the possibility of an independent life for Mimi?
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