LIFE AFTER GENIUS
M. Ann Jacoby
Theodore Mead Fegley has always been the smartest person he knows. By age 12, he was in high school, and by 15 he was attending a top-ranking university. And now, at the tender age of 18, he’s on the verge of proving the Riemann Hypothesis, a mathematical equation that has mystified academics for almost 150 years. But only days before graduation, Mead suddenly packs his bags and flees home to rural Illinois. What has caused him to flee remains a mystery to all but Mead and a classmate whose quest for success has turned into a dangerous obession.
At home, Mead finds little solace. His past ghosts haunt him; his parents don’t understand the agony his genius has caused him, nor his desire to be a normal kid, and his dreams seem crushed forever. He embarks on a new life’s journey — learning the family business of selling furniture and embalming the dead–that disappoints and surprises all who knew him as “the young Fegley genius.”
Equal parts academic thriller and poignant coming-of-age story, LIFE AFTER GENIUS follows the remarkable journey of a young man who must discover that the heart may know what the head hasn’t yet learned.
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What an incredibly unique story. I would love to read this book to find out all his conflicts and see what happens when he goes home. If he ever resumes his former life.
I am very intrigued by this story. It sounds like something different then I have ever read. I think I might like it. Now I am wondering if he ever finished school.
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what a solitary life it must have been for him; I’d love to find out what happens to him.
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I would like to win because I like to read about “brilliant ” people coping in the world.
In some ways I identify with Mead; all the pressure and expectations to suceed. I would love to read this novel and find out how he resolves his personal conflict. Please accept this as my entry. Thank you!
Aliya D.
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My daughter is a very smart girl. I’d like to read this book.
Please enter me.
I would love to read this book, sounds good.