Product Description: In this beautifully nuanced dark comedy, a 9/11 widow and her son, Hamlet, have retreated from Brooklyn to the idyllic rural countryside upstate, where for nearly eight years they have run a sustainable farm. Unfortunately, their outrageously obese neighbors, who prefer the starchy products of industrial agriculture, reject their elitist ways (recycling, eating healthy, reading)...read more

Product Description: As 20th century geneticist J. B. S. Haldane famously quipped, "Teleology is like a mistress to the biologist; he dare not be seen with her in public but cannot live without her." Teleology is the study of the purposes of nature. As a scientific discipline, it began its celebrated decline in the 17th century, with the birth of modern empiricism, and continued to plummet apace the rise of the Enlightenment, Darwinism, and quantum mechanics...read more

Product Description: When Hali's father asks her to help him commit suicide to spare thefamily the misery of a long illness, she reluctantly agrees. Hali'sfamily insists on letting "God's will" decide. Hali, brooding upon theidea of predetermination and an afterlife in a way that is bothchallenging and deeply moving, is ultimately unable to do what herfather wishes...read more