The Astrophysicist Who Accepted Everything

What if your greatest mystery is at home?

The Astrophysicist Who Accepted Everything by Clark A. Hiddleston is a striking, emotionally resonant portrait of a family navigating love, madness, and the gravitational pull of connection.

At the heart is Mitch Zhukov, a brilliant yet vulnerable astrophysicist whose wide-open mind absorbs the universe's mysteries—but struggles with the far more complex forces within his own home.

His wife, Adeline, yearns for stability and intimacy but is fraying under the weight of their son Lukas’s escalating emotional turbulence. As celestial metaphors swirl through scientific discoveries and family meltdowns alike, Hiddleston captures the raw beauty and chaos of a household teetering between collapse and cosmic revelation.

Told in vivid episodes, this novel fuses domestic drama with philosophical depth, pulling readers through moments of biting humor, painful honesty, and unexpected grace.

Perfect for readers who crave character-driven fiction with a psychological edge, The Astrophysicist Who Accepted Everything invites you to consider what it means to love unconditionally—even when reality bends and the orbit becomes unstable.

A luminous, haunting exploration of mental health, resilience, and the paradox of understanding everything except those closest to us.

Witness the light that survives the darkness.

The Inspiration for Mitch Zhukov—From the Author

The idea of Mitch came from working as a public defender with mentally ill clients, interacting with loved ones, and learning how to calm people in difficult circumstances. I want those with mood disorders to be their best selves and get through their worst moments, while continuing to love their family. Mitch and his wife Adeline are different from each other, but they keep trying in their marriage and with their emotionally troubled tween, Luke. When Dr. Elias Mentorim comes into the story in Episode 4, you begin to see him as a source of stability for Mitch and also how their professional relationship at the university will later lead to sharing the Nobel Prize in Physics. Mentorim is religious for a scientist, and the story shows how exploring the origins of the universe can create deep faith. Almost accidentally, Adeline becomes involved in Mitch making the discovery of the millennia, while they are on a second honeymoon in a fantastical hotel along the coast of California. She transforms into an advocate for her husband and mentally ill people everywhere. With fame comes attention, and international intrigue attempts to wrest the story away from the Zhukov family. They persevere, however, through the twists and turns, and into the dramatic ending, I didn’t expect such a conclusion when I first started, but the plot developments coalesced into a better world. Regarding the narration, I chose a voice for each point of view character and by the raw feel of the episodes.