Describes how birds tweet and bees buzz in the daylight before entirely different creatures awaken and prowl after dark.

"A visionary and powerful debut thriller set in a terrifyingly plausible dystopian near-future-with clear parallels to today's headlines--in which the future of humanity lies in the hands of one woman, a scientist who has stumbled upon a secret that the government will go to any lengths to keep hidden. A world half in darkness. A secret she must bring to light. It is 2059, and the world has crashed. Forty years ago, a solar catastrophe began to slow...

Explores the life and work of nineteenth-century French physicist Leon Foucault, who invented a pendulum that provided proof that the Earth rotated on its axis.