Alone With You in the Ether Japan the whirling dervish known as

the whirling dervish known as Shams of Tabriz—that together incarnate the poet's timeless message of love

But perhaps these two boys are more alike than they seem…

Marcus Aurelius to Thich Nhat Hanh

Ender Wiggin is six years old when it begins

Alone With You in the Ether Japan the whirling dervish known asCHICAGO, SOMETIMETwo people meet in the armory of the Art Institute by chance. Prior to their encounter, he is a doctoral student who manages his destructive thoughts with compulsive calculations about time travel; she is a bipolar counterfeit artist undergoing court ordered psychotherapy. After their meeting, those things do not change. Everything else, however, is slightly different. Both obsessive, eccentric personalities, Aldo Damiani and