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Reviewed by Jamie Michele for Readers' Favorite
In Tsung-Long Wu’s The Fourth Footprint, Sarah Wu is a Boston neurosurgeon whose family is caught in a global rupture of time. Strange signals appear in hospital EEGs just as public reports describe birds freezing in the air and airplanes flickering midflight. When the sky begins to double, Sarah’s medical knowledge becomes part of a mystery. At home, her husband David tries to keep their children safe as the city loses power and public order starts to fail. When the Wus leave Brookline for a remote Vermont cabin, the outside catastrophe begins pressing against something private inside Sarah’s mind. Lily’s spiral sketches and Sarah’s visions both point toward a family truth that may be linked to the world’s broken sense of time.
Tsung-Long Wu’s The Fourth Footprint is beautiful literary science fiction, and Wu makes the impossible feel intimate by keeping the rupture close to one family. The science succeeds because Sarah’s brain research sits beside mothering, so the ghost waves in EEGs feel personal before they feel cosmic. We get to witness Sarah operate by failing light, then later haul water at the Vermont cabin as the same hands turn from surgery to survival. Sarah is a genuinely likeable character because her brilliance never makes her cold. David is my favorite supporting character, a former athlete who protects the family through practical love. Well written and haunting, readers who enjoy totally immersive storytelling and fabulously intelligent speculative fiction will adore this, as I have. Very highly recommended.
