The Solitude of Prime Numbers
The Solitude of Prime Numbers by Paolo Giordano is about two loners haunted by individual childhood tragedies: Alice nearly dying in a skiing accident after trying to impress her demanding father, and Mattia leaving and ultimately losing his mentally disabled sister, Michela, in order to attend a friend's birthday party without her as an embarrassing sidekick. Following these misfortunes, Alice walks with a limp and is severely anorexic, and Mattia is a...
