The stone loves the world —Hall, Brian, 1959- author.

"A wise, inventive, and multilayered novel about two families--one made up largely of scientists, and the other of artists and mystics--whose worlds collide in pursuit of a lost daughter. Mette, a twenty-year old program...

The Saskiad : a novel —Hall, Brian, 1959- author.

"Longing to escape the rundown commune outside of Ithaca, New York, where she lives with her organic-farmer mother, assorted half-siblings, and a cow named Marilyn, the precociously well-read Saskia White, twelve, imagin...