Gravity Is the Thing: A Novel

One of Real Simple’s Best Books of the Year

“I loved this book. . . . Funny, heartbreaking and clever with a mystery at its heart.” —Jojo Moyes

“With an eye as keen for human idiosyncrasies as Miranda July’s, and a sense of humor as bright and surprising as Maria Semple’s, this is a novel of pure velocity.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review)

Twenty years ago, Abigail Sorenson’s brother Robert went missing one day before her sixteenth birthday, never to be seen again. That same year, she began...