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From the National Book Award–longlisted author of The Need comes an extraordinary novel about a wife and mother who—after losing her job to AI—undergoes a procedure that renders her undetectable to su…

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A reflective, original invitation to recover and cultivate the human experiences that have atrophied in our virtual world.

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