A story of how an innocent and bright child makes sense of the world around her on her own.
The work can be seen as a kind of autobiographical work in the sense that the character Fynn is often said to take after the author Sydney George Hopkins a.k.a Fynn, it is noted as not being a definite autobiography because the existence of Anna and thereby the relation between the two main characters is one that is debated over, for , to date, there exists no record of Anna existing as a living girl of flesh and blood. An argument can be made in the direction of Anna being a figment of Fynn's imagination,one that only exists for him, only on paper, a part disassociated from himself for the purpose of making sense of the world around him but at the same time, Anna could have easily been a real living girl. The work takes us on a journey along with Anna as she makes sense of world, the God-given and the man made,in her own terms, all her explanations often ending up tied to mister God, it explores God using scientific concepts such as absorption of light and negative integrals. It is a kind of religious book, one that does not prescribe to any particular religion, it shirks the notion of separate religions and churches, seeing as them as pointless man made concepts.
(Also the relation between the main characters might come off as odd owing to a handful of circumstances seen in the story, but their bond is portrayed as one that is found between companions,fellow searchers...having no sexual connotation. )