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Synopsis
While working for a mysterious financial consulting firm that offers insurance to corporations against impending catastrophic events, a gifted young mathematician becomes increasingly obsessed with doomsday scenarios until one of his actual worst-case scenarios unfolds in Manhattan.
Is Odds against tomorrow appropriate for my child?
Suitable for most readers 16 and up.
This literary speculative novel explores catastrophic anxiety and disaster scenarios with moderate thematic intensity. Contains adult themes about financial risk, obsession, and urban catastrophe but no explicit content.
What to know going in
This book has moderate violence, no sexual content, and moderate language. Content notes include mass death, anxiety, and catastrophic event (see the full list above).
Who'll love this
Adult readers interested in what-if scenarios and psychological explorations of fear will find this mathematically-grounded disaster story compelling.