IndieBound Heavy lies the high-tech crown in Anamâs spectacular fourth novel (after her Bengal trilogy). Asha Ray, 30, a brilliant computer coder whose PhD project at Harvard involves the âreverse engineering of the brain,â reconnects with Cyrus Jones, a high school crush she hasnât seen in 13 years who has become an itinerant âhumanist spirit guide,â officiating weddings and baptisms for nonreligious people. She abandons her research and the two marry in an impulsive city hall wedding, then move into her parentsâ house on Long Island. Asha and Cyrus find work at Utopia, a tech company whose mission is to âsave humanity from the apocalypse.â There, Asha throws herself into creating an âEmpathy Moduleâ algorithm for a social networking app inspired by Cyrusâs spiritual work. The app, a âvirtual parishâ called WAI (We Are Infinite) becomes a global sensation, and, after Cyrus gets the credit for it, his charis
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