The Bone Clocks

by David Mitchell

“The world’s default mode is basic indifference. It’d like to care, but it’s just got too much on at the moment.”

Have we evolved this way? Or are we designed? Designed by whom? Why did the designer go to such elaborate lengths, only to vacate the stage and leave us wondering why we exist? For entertainment? For perversity? For a joke? To judge us?

Human cruelty can be infinite. Human generosity can be boundless.