Come with Me: A Novel,Used

A San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of the Year, A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice, A New York Post Best Book of the WeekRecommended by Vogue, The San Francisco Chronicle, The Skimm, The BBC, Southern Living, Pure Wow, Hey Alma, Esquire, EW, Refinery 29, Bust, and Read It or WeepMindblowingly brilliant. Provocative, profound and yes, a little unsettling, Come With Me is about how technology breaks apart and then reconfigures a family, and though it has hints of scifi, its so beautifully grounded in reality that it seems to breathe. Although it takes place over just three days, whats so fascinating is that so many lives, and many possibilities, are lived through it. Truly, its a novel like its own multiverse. San Francisco ChronicleFrom Helen Schulman, the acclaimed author of the New York Times bestseller This Beautiful Life, comes another "gripping, potent, and blisteringly wellwritten story of family, dilemma, and consequence" (Elizabeth Gilbert)a mindbending novel set in Silicon Valley that challenges our modern constructs of attachment and love, purpose and fate."What do you want to know?"Amy Reed works parttime as a PR person for a tech startup, run by her college roommates nineteenyearold son, in Palo Alto, California. Donny is a baby genius, a junior at Stanford in his spare time. His play for fortune is an algorithm that may allow people access to their "multiverses"all the planes on which their alternative life choices can be played out simultaneouslyto see how the decisions theyve made have shaped their lives.Donny wants Amy to be his guinea pig. And even as she questions Donnys theories and motives, Amy finds herself unable to resist the lure of the road(s) not taken. Who would she be if she had made different choices, loved different people? Where would she be now?Amys husband, Danan unemployed, perhaps unemployable, print journalistaccepts a dare of his own, accompanying a seductive, awardwinning photographer named Maryam on a trip to Fukushima, the Japanese city devastated by tsunami and meltdown. Collaborating with Maryam, Dan feels a renewed sense of excitement and possibility he hasnt felt with his wife in a long time. But when crisis hits at home, the extent of Dans betrayal is exposed and, as Amy contemplates alternative lives, the couple must confront whether the distances between them in the here and now are irreconcilable.Taking place over three nonconsecutive but vitally important days for Amy, Dan, and their three sons, Come with Me is searing, entertaining, and unexpecteda dark comedy that is ultimately both a deeply romantic love story and a vivid tapestry of modern life.