The Revelations: A Novel

Erik Hoel’s The Revelations is an edgy and ambitious novel debut about neuroscience, death, and the search for the theory of human consciousness, by a powerful new voice in contemporary literary f ...

Erik Hoel’s The Revelations is an edgy and ambitious novel debut about neuroscience, death, and the search for the theory of human consciousness, by a powerful new voice in contemporary literary fiction.Longlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize Monday, Kierk wakes up. Once a rising star in neuroscience, Kierk Suren is now homeless, broken by his all-consuming quest to find a scientific theory of consciousness. But when he’s offered a spot in a prestigious postdoctoral program, he decides to rejoin society and vows not to self-destruct again. Instead of focusing on his work, howev