Winner of the 2015 Press 53 Award for Short Fiction, The Universal Physics of Escape takes readers on a journey both scientific and spiritual. As Karen Russell, author of Swamplandia!, says, "These science-inflected tales include octopus escape artists, "reclamation specialists," cracked geodes and the intractable laws of physics. Out of a bedrock of fact, Gonzalez raises a lush set of questions about our mysterious species: why do we stay, when do we go, how do we build our selves and our homes?"