A review by magpie2331
Trespassing on Einstein's Lawn: A Father, a Daughter, the Meaning of Nothing, and the Beginning of Everything by Amanda Gefter

Did not finish book.

3.0

I wanted to like this book, as I really loved Amanda Gefter’s NYT modern love column and I liked the premise, but unfortunately I could not. The New York Time’s book review from 2014 puts my thoughts into better words than I ever could, but basically, unless you have a degree in physics, her narrative is fairly impenetrable. She assumes too much prior knowledge of very complex ideas of theoretical physics and cosmology. Rather than breaking down these ideas into digestible concepts that the average reader might have a chance of understanding, she instead narrates the rabbit hole she dives into as she seeks to find her own answers, but doesn’t provide enough background for the reader to successfully accompany her.

I didn’t actually finish the boom — I abandoned it on page 141, as I was tired of feeling like I needed a science dictionary and an advanced degree in physics to understand half of what she was writing.