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Hum

โœ Scribed by Helen Phillips

Book ID
115272435
Publisher
S&S/ Marysue Rucci Books
Year
2024
Tongue
EN-US
Weight
430 KB
Category
Fiction
ISBN-13
9781668008850

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โœฆ Synopsis

Named Most Anticipated by Goodreads,LitHub , and Book Riot , this "tense dystopian thriller" (TIME) captures an urgent and unflinching portrayal of a woman's fight for her family's security in a world shaped by global warming and rapid technological progress.
In a city addled by climate change and populated by intelligent robots called "hums," May loses her job to artificial intelligence. In a desperate bid to resolve her family's debt and secure their future for another few months, she becomes a guinea pig in an experiment that alters her face so it cannot be recognized by surveillance.

Seeking some reprieve from her recent hardships and from her family's addiction to their devices, she splurges on passes that allow them three nights' respite inside the Botanical Garden: a rare green refuge where forests, streams, and animals flourish. But her insistence that her son, daughter, and husband leave their devices at home proves far more fraught...

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