“Why did we always say we were going to shoot emails?" "I don't know. I've wondered that, too." "Why couldn't we just say we were going to send them? We were just pressing a button, were we not?" "Not even a real button. A picture of a button on a screen.”
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Emily St. John Mandel is a Canadian-American writer born in Ontario, Canada, in 1979. Her works span various literary genres, including novels, short stories, and poetry. Mandel's writing is celebrated for its profound themes, rich imagination, and unique narrative techniques. more
“I asked Alicia to think about the people she knew whose work she admired.”
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“Normal isn’t always right, and different isn’t always wrong.”