Summer Reading Project, BookLikes Satellite

Every semester, I end up teaching for a class that is assigned three topics, one of which is superstitions. After a few frustrating searches for the origins of our fear of Friday 13th or the idea that the full moon brings out the crazy, I have to tell the students that they need to look deeper for research about how the human mind sees patterns where there might not be any real correlation between events. On the other hand, sometimes there is meaning in the patterns. Our past behavior predicts our current and future choices. Dara Horn’s astonishing novel, A Guide for the Perplexed, dances between these two extremes of interpretation. I was floored by the profundity of this book...

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