Why should I read this book?

Often graphic novels resist categorization. I cannot tell you whether this one counts as a YA book or whether it is only intended for adult audiences. There are some frank discussions of sexuality, puberty, impotence, and it is probably not suited for study in a high school classroom. Nor is it necessarily the sort of book that you wold find yourself recommending to a wide swath of students. But here is the thing: in spite of all of Ted's flailing attempts to make the life of a college physics researcher work for him -- in site of the ways he is neglecting his wife and children in pursuit of the fame of making a really big discovery -- in the end he finally figures out what is really important. And the final six pages or so are worth the price of the book. This is the sort of book that might easily be challenged -- for all the wrong reasons.