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Reviewed by Jack Magnus for Readers' Favorite
When we first meet Philip Adler he is in session with a troubled patient, a young woman with whom Adler is playing a sort of chess game. Who will speak first? What is the appropriate position to take in response? If you have ever wondered what goes on in the mind of a psychiatrist while he or she is in session with a patient, "Theory of Remainders" may give you some idea. Philip's life outside the office is relatively set and predictable: chess games with long-distance players and shared meals with Edith his cat—until he receives a telephone call from his ex-wife in France. His mother-in-law has died, and it seems the appropriate thing for him to do is attend her funeral, even if it has been a number of years since he was last in France.
Every so often a reader comes upon a book that welcomes him like an old friend. The words flow, and the characters become real so quickly and easily that before you know it you are fully engrossed in the tale. Such is the case with Scott Dominic Carpenter's "Theory of Remainders," a rare and wondrous novel. Philip is an engaging character, and one winces in sympathy as he struggles through the reunion with his ex-wife and her family and resolutely maims the French language with his Yankee accent. His efforts to find out where his daughter Sophie’s remains were hidden by her murderer, 15 years previously, make this very literary novel also a compelling mystery, one that I thoroughly enjoyed and wholeheartedly recommend.
