Every ARC Bends Its Radian

""[A] roiling, noirish, existential explosion of a novel.""--Vanity Fair ""[This] detective story holds a hypnotizing power all its own.""--Publishers Weekly ""Fantastical, spectacular, riveting...fiercely intense and consuming. And existential detective thriller from an engaging writer and thinker.""--Library Journal (starred review) ""A mind-bending detective story...[it] reads a bit like if Raymond Chandler and Jules Verne dropped acid together and started contemplating the nature of evil and the future of artificial intelligence. Summarizing any de la Pava novel--where formal hijinks abound and digressions range from The Honeymooners to theoretical physics--in one sentence feels almost obscenely reductive, but even those bare-bones descriptions make clear that this is not a writer in search of approval.""--Publishers Weekly ""A genre-hopping sojourn...Put on your seat belt for this weirdly imaginative yarn and its endless hairpin twists and turns.""--Kirkus Reviews ""This existential detective novel follows Riv, a philosophical private eye, from personal tragedy in New York to serious trouble in Colombia. On the trail of a missing girl, he runs up against crooked cops, an all-powerful crime lord, and, of course, his own past.""--Boston Globe, ""20 Books We Can't Wait to Read this Fall"" ""With singular humor and brilliance, Every Arc Bends Its Radian lures us in with an ostensible detective story only to show us that all searches inevitably turn deeply inward. De la Pava's newest offering is a resounding argument for care as resistance--care as our highest form of creativity and care as the ultimate proof of our humanity. Over and over again, I held my breath against the marvel of the novel's plot, its philosophical rigor, it growing menace and suspense; and yet the book's superb wit, coupled with its sincere wisdom, reminded me just as often to release that breath--that my breath is only a tiny hum that will someday rejoin the unknowable song of the universe. A searing examination of how power and corruption can warp our minds and hearts, Every Arc Bends Its Radian provides us not a way through, but instead, something more realistic and necessary: a way to hold on to our humanity in the face of perpetual and increasing challenges to it.""--Jennine Capó Crucet, author of Say Hello to My Little Friend ""Sergio De La Pava is one of America's most inventive writers, and his new novel bends minds and genres in equal measure. Starting life as a hard-boiled detective story, it cuts a heady and frequently funny path through travelogue, horror, and sci-fi. Like some postmodern Poe bringing news of the maelstrom, Every Arc Bends Its Radian offers a wild ride to 'the innermost heart of reality.'""--Garth Risk Hallberg, New York Times bestselling author of City on Fire and The Second Coming ""Every Arc Bends its Radian poses unanswerable questions, pushes at the outer skin of reality, and expands the idea of a novel. Bellicose and tender, delirious and lucid, what I just read is a masterpiece. Sergio De La Pava is one of the finest writers alive.""--Zain Khalid, author of Brother Alive ""A philosophical parable about our dumpster present in the key of Pynchon out for a night on the town with Dostoevsky and Mary Shelley, Every Arc Bends Its Radian is unhinged in the best possible way. A frisky, horrifying, witty, enraged, unpredictable, and fascinating exploration into how the human is ending and the other thing birthing all around us. Plus its second half will make your brain explode at least once on every page.""--Lance Olsen, author of Absolute Away