About the book: 2012 / Dominic Smith is one of the most promising young American writers, who debuted in 2006 with the novel “The Mercury Visions of Louis Daguerre” (about the French inventor and creator photographs).A Beautiful Variety is the second novel by Dominic Smith. It is not easy for a child to live in the world if his father is a genius. But it’s even harder if a genius father wants to make his son a genius, and the son is an ordinary schoolboy who does not have any special talents. This is what happens to Nathan Nelson, the son of a famous nuclear physicist, five minutes later, a Nobel laureate. The rebellion of a teenager, his struggle with parental care, the search for his own path - for the time being, all Nagan’s efforts turn out to be in vain. But then the day comes when the boy gets into a car accident. After experiencing clinical death, Nathan discovers extraordinary abilities. Now he is also a genius, but not the kind his father would like to see: the nature of his son’s talent is mysterious to his father and requires a rational explanation. How will the relationship between father and son end??