I enjoyed this short novel. It has physicists and anthrolpologists, blind men, grad students, a psychiatrist, oh and a creature composed of nothingness (entirely made of the absence of anything) that has its own personality and is picky. It is a darkly funny and sarcastic story about love and obsession, while at the same time we are pulled through an academic discussion of what it is to have, and to lack.

“Ah love.
L
O
V
E
love.
L is for life. I mean what is life without love?
O for OH WOW!
V is for this very surprising turn of events which i am still fine with by the way.
E is for how extreeemeely normal I find it that you two are together and that one day you might get married… and have children of your own…”

I believe Ross (from Friends) best describes this book.