Chanda Prescod-Weinstein did not write her debut book for me, and it took me too long to realize that.

“The Disordered Cosmos: A Journey into Dark Matter, Spacetime, and Dreams Deferred” is a book for Black kids — the ones who live under a light-polluted sky next to the highway that once upon a time tore their neighborhood apart. They’re cosmic dreamers. Or at least they can be. Prescod-Weinstein believes that, and she wrote a book for them.