A beautiful and profound story that blends the poignant journey of a man losing his memory with a surprising, almost mystical connection to the underlying order of the universe. A man is wandering. His memory is failing, but his mind is revealing the secret math of the universe. To find his way back, he must follow the perfect pattern of being lost.

He is aging and early fog of dementia has settled in. Names, dates and destinations are dissolving, but the rhythm of his walk is the one thing he can still trust. With a wallet full of functioning credit cards and an impulse for small, quiet kindness, he drifts from town to town - benevolent ghost in flannel and well worn shoes. He writes cryptic postcards and gives away twenty dollar bills to smiling strangers, not remembering where he has been, only that he must keep moving.
But his wandering is not random.

As his personal past fades, a different kind of clarity emerges. He begins to see the world's hidden architecture: the Fibonacci sequence in a pine cone the golden ratio in the curve of a breaking wave, the fractals in the veins of a leaf. His fading memory is being replaced by a sublime mathematical awareness.
This is a moving, unforgettable novel about finding pattern in chaos, meaning in forgetting and discovering that even a man who has lost his way can still find a path back home.