Bewilderment - Richard Powers, Edoardo Ballerini

Edoardo Ballerini, Richard Powers

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Narrator: Edoardo Ballerini

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An Oprahs Book Club Selection Shortlisted for the 2021 Booker Prize Longlisted for the 2021 National Book Award for Fiction A heartrending new novel from the Pulitzer Prize-winning and number-one New York Times best-selling author of The Overstory. I never believed the diagnoses the doctors settled on my son. When a condition gets three different names over as many decades, when it goes from non-existent to the countrys most commonly diagnosed childhood disorder in one generation, when two different physicians want to prescribe three different medications, theres something wrong. Theo Byrne is a promising young astrobiologist who has found a way to search for life on other planets dozens of light years away. He is also the widowed father of a most unusual nine-year-old. His son, Robin, is funny, loving, and filled with plans. He thinks and feels deeply, adores animals, and can spend hours painting elaborate pictures. He is also on the verge of being expelled from third grade for smashi