Ptolemy Bent--"Popo"--is different. At an age when most babies are cooing "Mama," Popo was speaking in complete sentences. He was reading college textbooks whenhe was still too young for nursery school. Popo may just be the smartest humanbeing on Earth. And he spends all his time listening to the radio . . . to whitenoise that comes drifting down from the sky like stardust. Chill Bent is atwo-time loser with a hair-trigger temper. After the death of Popo's mother, theex-con assumes responsibility for his nephew, vowing to protect the boy from agovernment eager to strip away his African-American heritage and exploit hisgenius like a natural resource. Together, Popo and Chill are about to embark onan extraordinary journey into the farthest reaches of the mind and the soul . .. a journey you will never forget.