September Book Pick: When We Cease to Understand the World -Benjamin Labatut

September is the beginning of Hispanic Heritage Month and the category was a 'Book written by a Latino Author.' We voted and When We Cease to Understand the World by Benjamin Labatut won!

This is a work in translation and was the finalist for the National Book Award!

Whether this is your first translated book or not, be sure to join us! Looking forward to discussing this with everyone! All you need to bring to the meeting are your thoughts/opinions on the book for discussion!

You can get 20% off the book at Park Road Books! Just tell them you're part of this book club and they'll apply it!

If you would like to vote on what to read next, you need to first attend a meeting to be invited to the Discord server.

"When We Cease to Understand the World is a book about the complicated links between scientific and mathematical discovery, madness, and destruction.

Fritz Haber, Alexander Grothendieck, Werner Heisenberg, Erwin Schrödinger—these are some of luminaries into whose troubled lives Benjamín Labatut thrusts the reader, showing us how they grappled with the most profound questions of existence. They have strokes of unparalleled genius, alienate friends and lovers, descend into isolation and insanity. Some of their discoveries reshape human life for the better; others pave the way to chaos and unimaginable suffering. The lines are never clear.

At a breakneck pace and with a wealth of disturbing detail, Labatut uses the imaginative resources of fiction to tell the stories of the scientists and mathematicians who expanded our notions of the possible."