A review by lizshayne
The Disordered Cosmos: A Journey into Dark Matter, Spacetime, and Dreams Deferred by Chanda Prescod-Weinstein

challenging hopeful informative sad medium-paced

5.0

This book is beautiful and painful in equal measures. The way Prescod-Weinstein talks about her research and presents the science behind it is just the best of what science writing can offer. And the way she presents the rest of her career—the activism, the struggles, the sheer anguish of doing what you love in a society that does not love you and will not admit it—it's not ugly because she's still a consummate writer, but it is the deep dark colors of a bruise instead of the night sky and it's impossible to miss or disregard that change.
Her story is not new, but her framing that this isn't a story of accomplishment beyond the odds—even though it is—but an indictment of the society at odds with itself that, in seeking a specific kind of truth, in unwilling to consider what it does not know that is still true and what it *knows* that is false.
Also she opened with the blessing of yotzer or and closed with tefilat haderech and I just...*sigh*. It's everything.