Saturday Showcase is a weekly event hosted here at The In-Between Place which features books that you wish more people had read (or, at least, heard about).
This week’s featured book is The Theory of Everything by Kari Luna.
One part Libba Bray’s GOING BOVINE, two parts String Theory, and three parts love story equals a whimsical novel that will change the way you think about the world.
Sophie Sophia is obsessed with music from the late eighties. She also has an eccentric physicist father who sometimes vanishes for days and sees things other people don’t see. But when he disappears for good and Sophie’s mom moves them from Brooklyn, New York, to Havencrest, Illinois, for a fresh start, things take a turn for the weird. Sophie starts seeing things, like marching band pandas, just like her dad.
Guided by Walt, her shaman panda, and her new (human) friend named Finny, Sophie is determined to find her father and figure out her visions, once and for all. So she travels back to where it began—New York City and NYU’s physics department. As she discovers more about her dad’s research on M-theory and her father himself, Sophie opens her eyes to the world’s infinite possibilities—and her heart to love.
The Theory of Everything is adorably quirky, and deals with mental illness in an inventive yet sensitive way – complete with discussions on M-theory, and giant shaman pandas.
What are some of your favourite underrated books? Leave a list in the comments below.
Sounds really interesting!
One of my favorite underrated books is definitely the Dead Beautiful series by Yvonne Woon, it’s paranormal and it’s really good!
I’ll have to add it to my to-read list! 🙂