{"product_id":"alone-with-you-in-the-ether-9781250888167b","title":"Alone With You in the Ether","description":"\u003cb\u003eFrom Olivie Blake, the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eThe Atlas Six,\u003c\/i\u003e comes an intimate and contemporary study of time, space, and the nature of love. \u003ci\u003eAlone with You in the Ether\u003c\/i\u003e explores what it means to be unwell, and how to face the fractures of yourself and still love as if you're not broken.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\nCHICAGO, SOMETIME—\nTwo people meet in the Art Institute by chance. Prior to their encounter, he is a doctoral student who manages his destructive thoughts with compulsive calculations about time travel; she is a bipolar counterfeit artist, undergoing court-ordered psychotherapy. By the end of the story, these things will still be true. But this is not a story about endings.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\nFor Regan, people are predictable and tedious, including and perhaps especially herself. She copes with the dreariness of existence by living impulsively, imagining a new, alternate timeline being created in the wake of every rash decision.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\nTo Aldo, the world feels disturbingly chaotic. He gets through his days by erecting a wall of routine: a backbeat of rules and formulas that keep him going. Without them, the entire framework of his existence would collapse.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\nFor Regan and Aldo, life has been a matter of resigning themselves to the blueprints of inevitability—until the two meet. Could six conversations with a stranger be the variable that shakes up the entire simulation?","brand":"Tor Books","offers":[{"title":"Bargain","offer_id":42825022046288,"sku":"9781250888167B","price":8.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0592\/8173\/5760\/files\/9781250888167-l.jpg?v=1785899101","url":"https:\/\/bookoutlet.com\/products\/alone-with-you-in-the-ether-9781250888167b","provider":"Book Outlet","version":"1.0","type":"link"}