Thomas Mallon's novel covers the day, May 24, 1962, when the Aurora 7 space capsule carrying Scott Carpenter orbited the Earth three times. The book's structure has echoes of Manhattan Transfer, with lives big and small intersecting, but it's primarily about an awkward 11-year-old boy from the New York City suburbs trying to fit into the world. Mallon's prose in this early novel is elegant and smooth without calling attention to itself.
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