A stunning debut novel about an astronaut's return to earth and the losses he must confront - elegant, moving and deeply resonant with our times

Smart, lyrical, deeply moving. The central character, a NASA astronaut who has touched the stars, must come to earth, as we all must. What he finds down here beneath the heavens is dizzying in its emotional complexity and pure aching beauty T. C. Boyle A breathtakingly beautiful and honest rendering of one man's massive life crisis. Part Space Oddity, part Revolutionary Road ... There are moments in this book I will never forget Anthony Swofford, author of Jarhead Will break your heart and take your breath away Ayelet Waldman, author of Red Hook Road The Infinite Tides takes as its subject an astronaut brought to earth by abandonment and bewilderment ... A subtle and moving novel, a re-entry and recovery story that eloquently inhabits the terrain of grief and endurance Antonya Nelson, author of Bound

Christian Kiefer earned his PhD in American literature from the University of California, Davis, and is on the English faculty of American River College in Sacramento. He is an active poet, songwriter and recording artist, and lives in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada Mountains in Northern California with his wife and five sons.