A Wrinkle In Time is a fantasy book about Meg Murry, her brother Charles Wallace, her friend Calvin O’Keefe, her father Dr. Alexander Murry and a phenomenon called tesseract. One dark, stormy night, the Murrys receive a visitor named Mrs. Whatsit, a friend of Charles Wallace, who seeks temporary shelter at their place from a storm. Just as she is about to leave, she turns to Mrs. Murphy and tells her “that there is such a thing as a tessaract”. Mrs. Murphy almost faints when she hears this.

Curious, Meg tries to find out what a tesseract is and learns more about her father’s research. Together with Charles Wallace, they visit Mrs. Whatsit to try and know more about her father’s research when they run into Calvin O’Keefe. Calvin comes with them to help them get to Camazotz, where Dr. Murphy is held hostage by an evil creature called IT. It is up to Meg, Charles Wallace and Calvin to figure out how to save Dr. Murphy from IT and Earth from being engulfed into total darkness.

Although published in 1962, A Wrinkle In Time by Madeleine L’Engle still remains a classic and timeless
fantasy book that will appeal to anyone and everyone. The book entertains while creatively teaching us a thing or two about physics and the sciences. Just like CS Lewis did for religion and the Bible and Milan Kundera did for philosophy, L’Engle broke down science into terms that regular people will be able to understand. And more importantly, she creatively has made physics, science and their terms interesting to learn about.

The characters are also easy to relate to because they could easily be us. Meg is a bad-tempered teenager who could be good at anything and everything if she just applied more effort. Calvin is a popular teenager who is trying hard to break out of his stereotype. And the other mythical creatures introduced in the book lead to some very interesting substories.

A Wrinkle In Time is a book that must be read at least once and over and over again, if possible. So, be sure to grab a copy now!

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