Housecleaning

Have a Caltech professor and his dying mother uncovered the secrets of the mind . . . and the universe?

Tom Flaherty's mother is suffering from a strange form of dementia that causes her to journey back in time; especially when she's housecleaning and finds personal items that trigger her memory. But Maude Flaherty's travels—from the Scopes Monkey trial in 1925 to the 1936 Berlin Olympics to Civil Rights March on Washington in 1963—might be the evidence Tom needs as a Caltech physicist to develop a unified theory of space, time, and place—String Theory—and reconnect with a society he's lost touch with since the murder of his partner Ken 10 years ago.