Future Home of the Living God

This novel fits right into the wheelhouse of stories that I like - our recognizable universe, but with an interesting (and not necessarily explained twist). In this case, it's the mysterious way that evolution begins to run backwards. I'm okay that the “why” of this not explained in the course of the plot, but I would have liked more description of the “how” as this is only alluded to in a few places.

I found the narrator an interesting one, yet would have liked more development of one of the not insignificant aspects of her character - she's a convert to Roman Catholicism. While this is evidenced in her reverence for saints, particularly the Native American Kateri Tekawitha, I would have liked to see more connections made. At the heart of my practice of the Catholic faith is a reverence for how God is present in the physicality of creation. There is speculation by the narrator that perhaps the God behind the drive of evolution has withdrawn from creation and this why everything is devolving. This is an interesting thought and I would have liked more of this religious/scientific/cosmological speculation woven throughout the plot.