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Ariel Manto is a graduate student obsessed with Thomas E. Lumas, a forgotten Victorian author whose novel The End of Mr. Y is said to be cursed. When she finds a rare copy in a second-hand bookstore and reads it, she discovers a recipe for entering the Troposphere, a realm where she can travel through the minds of others. Scarlett Thomas blends philosophy, science, and suspense in a strange and gripping novel.