pstrongNational Bestsellerstrongp pstrongNational Book Critics Circle Award Nomineestrongp pstrongFrom the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of emThe Overstory emand the forthcoming emBewildermentem, a magnificent double love story of two young couples separated by a distance of twenty-five years. strongp pstrongThe most lavishly ambitious American novel since emGravity's Rainbowem . . . An outright marvel. --emWashington PostemstrongbrbrStuart Ressler, a brilliant young molecular biologist, sets out in 1957 to crack the genetic code. His efforts are sidetracked by other, more intractable codes--social, moral, musical, spiritual--and he falls in love with a member of his research team. p pYears later, another young man and woman team up to investigate a different scientific mystery Why did the eminently promising Ressler suddenly disappear from the world of science Strand by strand, these two love stories twist about each other in a double helix of desire.p pThe critically acclaimed third