Desconcierto

Astrobiologist Theo Byrne searches the cosmos for life forms while single-handedly raising his peculiar nine-year-old son, Robin, after the death of his wife. Robin is a loving and cuddly boy who spends hours painting elaborate drawings of endangered animals and is about to get kicked out of third grade for punching a friend in the face. As his son's problems escalate, Theo tries to keep him off psychoactive medication. Thus, he discovers an experimental neurofeedback treatment to enhance Robin's control of emotions through training sessions with patterns recorded from his mother's brain... With sublime descriptions of the natural world, a promising vision of life beyond our confines and the story of an unconditional love between father and son, Bewilderment is the most intimate and moving novel by Richard Powers. Within it lies a question: how can we tell our children the truth about our beautiful and threatened planet?