Physics of Sorrow'Compulsively readable' New York Times 'Utterly original' Alberto Manguel In the small and the insignificant that's where life hides, that's where it builds its nest. Our unnamed narrator is not well. He suffers from attacks of 'pathological empathy', which cause him to wander unbidden into other people's memories. He moves from recollection to recollection from a Bulgarian country fair in 1925, where he meets a Minotaur, to inside the mind of a slug,

At her East Coast confectionery shops

Lessons learnt range from the practical (possessions belong either in the suitcase or the skip: storage is for wimps)

showcasing Dick's evolution' Goodreads reviewer

creams and balms to syrups and teas

the human brain

The Herbert Fuller

'(Some) Women protesting rape are dented and painted

the so-called Swank or low-fat diet

Rechy is unflinching in his portrayal of one hustling 'youngman' and his search for self-knowledge among the other denizens of his neon-lit world

Exercise and fitness

Relativity means that for every few months' tour of duty centuries have passed on Earth

Taking readers from the horrors of Nazi Germany to the streets of South Boston