Notes on Extinction (Paperback)

After a fire destroys his masterpiece-in-progress—a voluminous work on world extinction—along with what’s left of his unfulfilling marriage, Will Mendelsohn must rethink his entire life. He decides to write another book, this one from an eyewitness’s perspective. In Assam, India, to visit a friend of his mother’s, Will meets Grace Tagore, an American screenwriter married to a prosperous Indian merchant. Drawn together by their haunted family histories, Will and Grace drift into a passionate affair just as Assam erupts in political turmoil, igniting a chain of events that transforms both their lives.

In a novel that explores the crucial link between evolution and extinction, love and loss—and how one always exists in the deepening shadow of the other—Deaner gives us a story of love and fulfillment, and rediscovery of one’s self.