Women and Men by Joseph McElroy.

Women and Men is divided into eight major chapters, five of which are called “Breathers,” with twenty-three sub-chapters. Set in New York and New Mexico, the novel also traverses a universe populated by angelic and earthy creatures, through whom the author discusses the flux and flow of relationships between the sexes against the backdrop of supertechnology. In addition, Joseph McElroy plays with the elasticity of time in an ongoing “dialogue” about the difficulty of human memory to retrieve the past.