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If you've ever seen a spider web after a rainstorm, the filigree assortment of droplets reflecting themselves and their surroundings infinitely, then you have a sense of what this book is like. Through the wily and melancholy septuagenarian Leo Gursky and precocious teenager and expert survivalist Alma Singer, Krauss captures the enormousness and complexity of life, and the universality of feelings regardless of age.