"Beautifully written and hugely entertaining, this book is a heartfelt introduction to the many mind-bending theories in contemporary physics." - Kirkus starred review

 

"Read Trespassing on Einstein's Lawn. Reality doesn't have to bite." - New York magazine

 

"Gefter will take you on an outsider’s tour of the universe’s inside story, and you’ll learn – and understand – more than you imagined you could." - The Mindful Reader, Concord Monitor

 

"Nothing quite prepared me for this book. Wow. Reading it, I alternated between depression—how could the rest of us science-writers ever match this?—and exhilaration." - George Musser, Scientific American

 

"I had trouble putting the book down." - Peter Woit, Not Even Wrong

 

"It’s a heady mix that occasionally threatens to fly apart at the seams, but Gefter holds it all together, and the end result is thoroughly charming." - Chad Orzel, Physics Today

 

"Maybe I'm just too dumb?" - Robin Marantz Henig, New York Times Book Review

 

"In this mix of memoir and science, Gefter chronicles her quest to understand the big conundrums through study of the physics literature and meetings with remarkable theoreticians from John Archibald Wheeler to Lisa Randall." - Nature

 

"A zany superposition of genres...Einstein's Lawn transcends the traditional categorizations publishers try to confer on the books they market." - Philadelphia Inquirer 

 

"Equal parts memoir and science writing, Trespassing on Einstein’s Lawn is both the story of how Gefter became a journalist (spoiler: it’s hilarious, inspiring, and totally awesome) and a profound, in-depth look at the very nature of reality, from quantum mechanics to multiverses." - Sarah McCarray, BookRiot

 

"Perhaps the best popular science book that has appeared this year." - The Oxford Culture Review