Andrew K. Berger

Andrew K. Berger is a public defender in Detroit Lakes, Minnesota. He studied English at the University of Iowa and law at Hamline University in St. Paul. After the last of his three children flew the coop, he discovered some unwritten manuscripts lurking inside his head demanding to be unleashed. Einstein’s Zoo is his first published novel.

Einstein’s Zoo is a quirky space comedy about a group of explorers building a massive ship in Earth’s orbit in hopes of someday taking humans to a newly discovered planet dubbed Earth Two, and a dubious psychologist who convinces them to raise their children on the lie that they’re already in deep space to see how they react, leading to eventual chaos when the lie is exposed and the whole scheme unravels. It’s a quasi-dystopian, cautionary tale about the perils of trying to leave Earth, proving that we were born on the right planet after all. The moral of the story is there’s no place like home.