Subtle Gravity

What is addiction? Who is an addict, and why? Are we only addicted to substances, or also to patterns of thought: self-loathing, doubt, obsessive thinking, and perhaps even silence?<br/><br/><i>Subtle Gravity</i>, like Praeg's first novel, <i>Imitation</i>, departs from the assumption that we are all addicts. We all struggle with being alone. Taking as a point of departure an extreme form of addiction – a commitment to the silence we know precedes the violence that language imposes on us – <i>Subtle Gravity</i> maps a possible way back from addiction through a playful engagement with Buddhism, Christian mysticism and, of course, <i>Star Wars</i>.