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The Farm at the Center of the Universe

by Guillermo Gonzalez

A farm becomes the setting for a clash of worldviews

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A farm becomes the setting for a clash of worldviews

After his father’s early death, Isaac is left with questions that his older cousin Charlie answers through a starkly materialist view of nature and existence. Charlie proposes a week at their grandparents’ farm as evidence, where animal life and death become part of an argument about survival, God, and the afterlife. The visit grows into a contest of wits between two men, placing Isaac in the position of making a choice for himself. The farm setting links concrete observations of nature with larger questions of belief and loss.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Teen and young adult readers interested in fiction that brings science and nature into questions of belief.
  • Readers drawn to stories about grief, family relationships, and competing worldviews.
  • Readers interested in a young protagonist facing a consequential personal choice.

Themes

Nature and survivalGrief and lossBelief, God, and the afterlifeFamily and personal choice

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Book overview

Why did Isaac's father have to die so young? Isaac's older cousin Charlie-a science teacher-says he knows why. Nature is pitiless. There's no God. No afterlife. Just atoms in the void and the struggle for survival. Charlie says a week at their grandparents' farm, seeing animals get killed and eaten, will prove it. But at the farm, both of them get more than they bargained for. And soon Isaac finds himself caught in a battle of wits between two men, and facing a choice he alone can make.

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