Connect

✍ Scribed by Gough, Julian

• Book ID: 110378085
• Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
• Year: 2018
• Tongue: en-US
• Weight: 446 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9780385541336

✦ Synopsis

From the author of Juno & Juliet, Connect reboots the classic story of a family coming apart at the seams for our looming era of mass surveillance, virtual reality, and miraculous biotechnology.
In the Nevada desert, in the near future, a family crisis sets off a chain reaction that threatens to bring the networked world to its knees. It starts in the home of Naomi Chiang, a biologist and single mother struggling to balance her research with looking after her painfully awkward, homeschooled, ever-growing teenage son, Colt. Naomi worries about him constantly--he's so socially inept that he struggles to order takeout pizza--but then she has a major breakthrough at the lab that could change their lives, and America's future. For his part, Colt seems focused on one thing only: a globe-spanning immersive gameworld in which his phenomenal coding skills set him apart. But after his first real-life romantic encounter goes awry, he realizes mastery of...