Review of 'Bewilderment' by Richard Powers

Another remarkable book by Richard Powers, centred on the relationship between an astrobiologist dad and his autistic/aspergers son after the death of the mum. Lots of clever, thoughtful stuff about SETI, brain training, American politics, and environmental catastrophe. I loved The Overstory, but this feels better, partly because there are fewer characters and a bit less plot, so I didn't have to keep checking back to work out what was going on. It's set in a fictional version of the Trump presidency, but one in which The Donald succeeds in having the election result nullified and goes on to win a second term in a re-run election...so dreadful though the events depicted are, at least that didn't happen.