A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice One of LitHub's Most Anticipated Books of 2020 An expansive, radiant, and genre-defying investigation into bonding—and how we are shaped by forces we cannot fully know Is love a force akin to gravity? A kind of invisible fabric which enables communications through space and time? Artist Harry Dodge finds himself contemplating such questions as his father declines from dementia and he rekindles a bewildering but powerful relationship with his birth mother. A meteorite Dodge orders on eBay becomes a mysterious catalyst for a reckoning with the vital forces of matter, the nature of consciousness, and the bafflements of belonging. Structured around a series of formative, formidable coincidences in Dodge’s life, My Meteorite journeys with stylistic bravura from Barthes to Blade Runner, from punk to Pale Fire. It is a wild, incandescent book that creates a literary universe of its own. Blending the personal and the philosophical, the raw and the surreal, the transgressive and the heartbreaking, Harry Dodge revitalizes our world, illuminating the magic just under the surface of daily life.
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“Dodge, a West Coast artist partial to both literary theory and pop culture, brings both together in his heady first book, a memoir that ditches chronology for a structure highlighting the deeper meanings he believes underlie his life’s myriad small coincidences.”
— New York Times Book Review
“These are fascinating thoughts, and there are questions to make us think again on every page. He also has a gift for storytelling.”
— The Guardian (London)“Dodge loves to futz with language. He can marshal it beautifully…He has an impish tendency to send readers scrambling to the dictionary.”
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Harry Dodge is a writer and visual artist whose work has been exhibited at venues nationally and internationally. His solo and collaborative work is held in numerous institutions, such as the Museum of Modern Art in New York, Hammer Museum in Los Angeles, and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. In 2017 he was awarded a Guggenheim Foundation fellowship.