From the author of the acclaimed Insectopedia, a powerful exploration of loss, endurance, and the absences that permeate the present <br /> <br />When Hugh Raffles’s two sisters died suddenly within a few weeks of each other, he reached for rocks, stones, and other seemingly solid objects as anchors in a world unmoored, as ways to make sense of these events through stories far larger than his own. <br /> <br />A moving, profound, and affirming meditation, The Book of Unconformities is grounded in stories of stones: Neolithic stone circles, Icelandic lava, mica from a Nazi concentration camp, petrified whale blubber in Svalbard, the marble prized by Manhattan’s Lenape, and a huge Greenlandic meteorite that arrived with six Inuit adventurers in the exuberant but fractious New York City of 1897. <br /> <br /> <br />As Raffles follows these fundamental objects, unearthing the events they’ve engendered, he finds them losing their solidity and becoming as capricious, indifferent, and willful as time itself. <br /> <br />video production Orfeas Skutelis <br />www.vimeo.com/orfeasskutelis <br />Instagram @orfeasskutelis
