Alone with You in the Ether: A Love Story

By Olivie Blake

Book Overview

From Olivie Blake, the New York Times bestselling author of The Atlas Six, comes a literary, intimate study of time, space, and the nature of love. Alone with You in the Ether explores what it means to be unwell, and how to face the fractures of yourself and still love as if you're not broken.

CHICAGO, SOMETIME--
Two 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.

For 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.

To 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.

For 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?

Also by Olivie Blake
The Atlas Six
The Atlas Paradox
The Atlas Complex
One for My Enemy
Masters of Death
Januaries: Stories of Love, Magic & Betrayal
Gifted & Talented

As Alexene Farol Follmuth
Twelfth Knight

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1250888166
• ISBN13: 9781250888167
• Release Date: November 2022
• Publisher: Tor Books
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.84 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.8" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

Can't wait to reread

I loved this book. It's witty, empowering, funny, & just all around brilliant. The characters all have mental health issues but try to see the best in each other. It's a lil spicy but in a beautiful & kind of hilarious way. I wish there were more books with it because I would love more of the story & characters. Can't wait to read it again! Definitely worth the read especially for those into art & sciences!