Evidence of Things Unseen: A Novel

by Marianne Wiggins

“One of the most suggestively original love stories in our current fiction… a true epic endeavor.” —The New York Times Book Review National Book Award Finalist Evidence of Things Unseen A Novel Marianne Wiggins Thank you for downloading this Simon & Schuster ebook.

Frost came behind the rain, and the resulting scene across the fields was a ponded desecration, frozen like a photograph of ruin, an upheaval painted with the hues of autumn which had bled to mud.

Youth never sees its shadow till the sun’s about to set: and then you wonder where the person went who you were speaking to in all your thoughts for all those years.

Things happen, he believed, and there’s nothing you can do to keep them from occurring without taking out the magic spark plug, the genius of invention that ignited the adventure in the first place.

because light travels to us over distance, everything we see is an illusion. And that the whole purpose of existence is to cut the distance between the source of the illusion and our perception of it. And if we can do that, then we can see that every particle of matter is the same.

when Flash started to speak about love the word floated in the same sort of way, only closer in and brighter and with far more mystery, but also with the smell of eggs, and other men, and beer.

Life is a series of collisions, for fucksake. It’s not a narrative experience.