For all its shine, fame seems more highly valued than ideas in this new world and friends are hard to find. reads he discovers the sometimes shadowy boundary between fact and fiction and realizes that, for all his analytical rigor, the world around him is a mystery.Īll that he has learned is tested when he arrives at the capital to claim his prize and is welcomed into science’s inner circle. A secret family history found within his luggage tells the story of T.S.'s ancestors and their long-ago passage west, offering profound insight into the family he left behind and his role within it. We come to see the world through T.S.'s eyes and in his thorough investigation of the outside world he also reveals himself.Īs he travels away from the ranch and his family we learn how the journey also brings him closer to home. Once aboard, his adventures step into high gear and he meticulously maps, charts, and illustrates his exploits, documenting mythical wormholes in the Midwest, the urban phenomenon of 'rims,' and the pleasures of McDonald’s, among other things. sets out alone, leaving before dawn with a plan to hop a freight train and hobo east. from his family ranch just north of Divide, Montana, to the museum’s hallowed halls.

Spivet receives an unexpected phone call from the Smithsonian announcing he has won the prestigious Baird Award, life as normal-if you consider mapping family dinner table conversation normal-is interrupted and a wild cross-country adventure begins, taking T.S. When twelve-year-old genius cartographer T.S. Spivet's attempts to understand the ways of the world A brilliant, boundary-leaping debut novel tracing twelve-year-old genius map maker T.S.

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