Will I love Coming of Age in the Milky Way?

I loved this book for its sparkling, eloquent prose. As a young writer, I strove to emulate the author. The book’s engaging, often novelistic, narrative tells the tale of how we came to understand and accept that our planet moves, that the universe is very old and very large, and began with a Big Bang.

The characters—Galileo, Newton, and Einstein—come to life as real people struggling to understand. Their bewilderment at our strange cosmic home pulled me into the story. The unwelcome realizations reveal the power of science to force us to abandon our cherished notions of how… show more.