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Three Rooms Press
April 2018
On Sale: April 10, 2018
408 pages
ISBN: 1941110584
EAN: 9781941110584
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Science Fiction | Fantasy
When Silas Fortunato applies for an editorial position for
the “spirituality” section of a local newspaper, he is
asked to fill in a bubble sheet to mark his religion. The
problem is, his beliefs don’t fall within any of the
categories. Silas believes that selflessness enlarges
vision and that what a person should strive for is to be
overcome by the beyond. He believes in honoring otherness
and in giving questions credence over certainty. He calls
himself a Cosmoterian because his goal is to make himself
worthy of the majesty of Cosmos. Silas is a man driven by
big ideas, but it is the everyday smallness that
perpetually both intrigues and eludes him. In this emotional tale of haunted love, Silas finds himself
locked in a marriage descending toward darkness until the
arrival of his sister-in-law and soon thereafter the
appearance of a witching neighbor who may or may not be
alive. In ways enigmatic, ghostly, and funny, the three
women draw him into the equivocal nature of dreams and
reality, their influences leading Silas on a journey toward
what may be light and a new belonging to something vastly
beyond himself. Just as William Least Heat-Moon’s nonfiction employs many
fictional narrative techniques, Celestial Mechanics draws
upon nonfictional devices to build a story that crosses
traditional boundaries between the two. Celestial Mechanics
is the clarion call of a generation that believes
rationality and spirituality can—and should—coexist, a
generation defined by globalization, where the only things
left unknown are what is within and beyond us, those cosmic
realms revealed by the telescope and the quantum world
suggested by the microscope. This book is for those of us
steeped in a hustle-and-bustle world we can’t escape, who
believe that practices like mindfulness and rational
deduction and childlike wonder are the keys to the kind of
fulfillment that the commercial aspects of our lives can
never hope to address.
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