Winner of the FC2 Catherine Doctorow Innovative Fiction Prize
Natural Wonders is a novel in the form of a series of lectures about the earth and its prehistory. In it, a grieving widow assembles an idiosyncratic history of the earth s history based on her understanding and impressions of her deceased husband s papers.
In Natural Wonders, Jenny is given the task of assembling a memorial edition of her recently deceased husband Jonathan s lecture series about the physical history of the earth. With little knowledge of his work or of Jonathan himself,...