Synopsis "Elle: The Naked Singularity"
Elle: the Naked Singularity is science fiction spiked with magical realism, a story in which a college student finds herself lost in the multiverse. When Elle slips to a parallel Earth, she must evade capture and find a way to return to her home world. "Echoing The Wizard of Oz, Elle's story proves that thoughtful science fiction can rise to new heights of beauty, meaning, and compassion."After twenty-year-old Elle Akamu time-travels from 21st century, she finds herself in the 1970s British Hawaiian Islands. She befriends a transgender social worker, a teenage orphan, and a POW survivor in her quest to return home. Lost in the multiverse, she discovers life is about accepting her past, choosing a future, and finding love in her new world.A fusion of science and Buddhism, the story explores racism, gay rights, and gender inequality in the 1970s through the eyes of a 21st century time traveler. A stranger in a strange land, Elle wrestles with our oldest questions--what is the nature of the universe? And how do our relationships shape our world?Elle pulls us into a world of ancient superstition and modern science with mystery and forbidden love. But anchoring this suspenseful, propulsive novel is an intimate young woman searching for her place in an upside-down twin world.