Description
A high-spirited and engaging novel, Mo Daviau’s EVERY ANXIOUS WAVE plays ball with the big questions of where we would go and who we would become if we could rewrite our pasts, as well as how to hold on to love across time.Good guy Karl Bender is athirty-something bar owner whose life lacks love and meaning. When hestumbles upon a time-travelling worm hole in his closet, Karl and hisbest friend Wayne develop a side business selling access to people whowant to travel back in time to listen to their favorite bands. It’s apretty ingenious plan, until Karl, intending to send Wayne to 1980,transports him back to 980 instead. Though Wayne sends texts extollingthe quality of life in tenth century “Mannahatta,” Karl is distraught thathe can’t bring his friend back. Enter brilliant, prickly,overweight astrophysicist, Lena Geduldig. Karl and Lena’s connection isimmediate. While they work on getting Wayne back, Karl and Lena fall inlove — with time travel, and each other. Unable to resist meddling withthe past, Karl and Lena bounce around time. When Lena ultimatelyprevents her own long-ago rape, she alters the course of her life andthreatens her future with Karl.
