Gut Symmetries

One of England's most renown contemporary novelists redraws the romantic triangle for the post-Einsteinian universe, where gender is as elastic as matter, and any accurate Grand Unified Theory (GUT) must encompass desire alongside electromagnetism and gravity.

On a boat in the mid-Atlantic, Alice, a brilliant English theoretical physicist, begins an affair with Jove, her remorselessly seductive American counterpart. But Jove is married. When Alice confronts his wife, Stella, she swiftly falls in love with her, with consequences that are by turns horrifying, comic, and arousing. Vaulting from Liverpool to New York, from alchemy to string theory, and from the spirit to the flesh, Gut Symmetries is a thrilling novel by one of England's most gifted young writers, filled with audacious characters and appetites, examining the parameters of lust, truth, and love.

PRAISE FOR Gut Symmetries:

"[A] masterfully written, highly suspenseful, and penetrating bisexual love story.... Winterson, ever innovative and unnerving even as she is enchanting, dives to remarkable emotional depths as she moves toward the revelation that "total beauty" is what makes life worth living."
--Booklist

"At every turn [Winterson's] fresh, vivid way of putting things stops one dead in admiration.... Ms. Winterson has struck gold herself."
--New York Times Book Review