{"product_id":"come-with-me-a-novel-isbn-9780062459138","title":"Come with Me: A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA \u003cem\u003eSan Francisco Chronicle\u003c\/em\u003e Best Book of the Year, A \u003cem\u003eNew York Times Book Review \u003c\/em\u003eEditors' Choice, A \u003cem\u003eNew York Post \u003c\/em\u003eBest Book of the Week\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRecommended by \u003cem\u003eVogue\u003c\/em\u003e,\u003cem\u003e The San Francisco Chronicle\u003c\/em\u003e, The Skimm, The BBC, \u003cem\u003eSouthern Living, \u003c\/em\u003ePure Wow, Hey Alma, \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eEsquire,\u003c\/em\u003e EW, Refinery 29, Bust, and Read It or Weep\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e“Mind-blowingly brilliant…. Provocative, profound and yes, a little unsettling, \u003cem\u003eCome With Me\u003c\/em\u003e is about how technology breaks apart and then reconfigures a family, and though it has hints of sci-fi, it’s so beautifully grounded in reality that it seems to breathe. Although it takes place over just three days, what’s so fascinating is that so many lives, and many possibilities, are lived through it. Truly, it’s a novel like its own multiverse.”\u003cbr\u003e   — \u003cem\u003eSan Francisco Chronicle\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom Helen Schulman, the acclaimed author of the \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e bestseller \u003cem\u003eThis Beautiful Life,\u003c\/em\u003e comes another \"gripping, potent, and blisteringly well-written story of family, dilemma, and consequence\" (Elizabeth Gilbert)—a mind-bending novel set in Silicon Valley that challenges our modern constructs of attachment and love, purpose and fate.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"What do you want to know?\"\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAmy Reed works part-time as a PR person for a tech start-up, run by her college roommate’s nineteen-year-old 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 simultaneously—to see how the decisions they’ve made have shaped their lives.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDonny wants Amy to be his guinea pig. And even as she questions Donny’s 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?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAmy’s husband, Dan—an unemployed, perhaps unemployable, print journalist—accepts a dare of his own, accompanying a seductive, award-winning 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 hasn’t felt with his wife in a long time. But when crisis hits at home, the extent of Dan’s 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTaking place over three non-consecutive but vitally important days for Amy, Dan, and their three sons, \u003cem\u003eCome with Me \u003c\/em\u003eis searing, entertaining, and unexpected—a dark comedy that is ultimately both a deeply romantic love story and a vivid tapestry of modern life.\u003c\/p\u003e | \u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003e“What do you want to know?”\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAmy Reed works part-time as a PR person for a tech start-up, run by her college roommate’s nineteen-year-old 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 simultaneously—to see how the decisions they’ve made have shaped their lives.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDonny wants Amy to be his guinea pig. And even as she questions his 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?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAmy’s husband, Dan—an unemployed, perhaps unemployable print journalist—accepts a dare of his own, accompanying a seductive, award-winning photographer named Maryam on a trip to Fukushima, the Japanese city devastated by a tsunami and a nuclear disaster. Collaborating with Maryam, Dan experiences a renewed sense of excitement and possibility that he hasn’t felt with his wife in a long time. But when a crisis hits at home, the extent of Dan’s betrayal is exposed; and as Amy contemplates alternative lives, the couple must determine whether the distances between them in the here and now are irreconcilable.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTaking place over three nonconsecutive but vitally important days in the lives of Amy, Dan, and their three sons, \u003cem\u003eCome with Me\u003c\/em\u003e is searing, entertaining, and unpredictable—a dark comedy that is ultimately both a deeply romantic love story and a vivid tapestry of modern life.\u003c\/p\u003e | \u003cp\u003e“An extraordinarily smart, funny morality tale about an ordinary family … doing ordinary things in an ordinary place and time, but with shocking results…. The finest novels, including \u003cem\u003eThis Beautiful Life\u003c\/em\u003e, shove their readers a few degrees off-center, forcing us out of our certainties and into new vantage points from which to view the world we live in and the parts we play in it.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBoston Globe on This Beautiful Life\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Begins as a titillating, ripped-from-the-headlines beach read, but it ends as an emotionally wrenching social critique…. It works, because it lets the narrative sneak up on you in a way that is both thrilling and satisfying. To our surprise, this isn’t a story we know after all.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSlate on This Beautiful Life\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Helen Schulman is one of the most gifted writers of our generation.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eJennifer Egan, author of Manhattan Beach\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Strikingly original, compelling and beautifully written…. Has the humor and wit, the careful eye for social detail and astute character development, that made her previous novel a bestseller.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Think: ‘Sliding Doors’ meets ‘Silicon Valley.’” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Skimm\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Wise… Playful.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eMinneapolis Star Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“A rich, closely observed story…. Schulman has a gift for vividly tracing the fallout of the domestic realm …. Poignantly captures the wonder, as well as the cluelessness, of how we live now.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eMaureen Corrigan, NPR's Fresh Air\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Gripping.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eEsquire\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Plays creatively with the universal question, ‘What if?’” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Delves into the interplay of technology and relationships with edgy, upsetting and tragic results. And yet, the story is also warm, wise and witty.... \u003cem\u003eCome With Me\u003c\/em\u003e respects the human right to feel more than one thing at one time: Sadness and amusement, love and hate, edginess and safety. It’s the kind of all-encompassing acceptance that makes the book feel both contemporary and classic.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Ingenious... It’s jarring, and a measure of Schulman’s inventiveness and skill, to be reminded that what we’re reading isn’t satire; it’s our everyday.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eO, the Oprah Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Smart, timely, and highly entertaining.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSarah Lyall, New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“A sharply observed, entertaining and occasionally heartrending novel that may help readers appreciate their own singular, similarly flawed realities.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eShelf Awareness\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“An intriguing look at the road not taken as seen through the eyes of a middle-aged married couple whose paths have diverged.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eInStyle\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Intoxicating and dangerous.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eRefinery29\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“A little science fiction with a lot of domestic drama, tempered by humor and a deeply resonant story about love, desire, and the family ties that bind.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eMarie Claire\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“The best-selling novelist continues to test the limits of “family” fiction in \u003cem\u003eCome With Me\u003c\/em\u003e, a high-wire domestic dramedy.…In tart, emotionally intelligent prose, \u003cem\u003eCome\u003c\/em\u003e delivers social satire with that rarest attribute: a heart. A-” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eEntertainment Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Adroit and perceptive, Schulman weaves a deeply felt meditation on the anxiety and complexity of modern relationships…thrillingly probes the ways technology and its sometimes alarming possibilities shape a Palo Alto, Calif., family.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Helen Schulman has a knack for social-realist novels that put their finger on the anxieties of the moment.... Schulman’s novel may be precisely located in the moment ... but this is also a book about larger issues like technology and attachment.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eVogue\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“An astute comedy of manners with elements of speculative fiction…. Schulman’s intriguing premise gives depth to this domestic drama. Adding to that, every sentence sparkles, even minor characters have full and surprising lives, and she pulls it all together in an elegant ending.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist starred review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Cutting-edge... tackles fate, love, and the ever-growing influence of technology on our lives.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eTime\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“A sharp yet compassionate glimpse of the ironic excesses and unanticipated tragedies of the Internet age.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBBC\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Schulman has brought to life a large cast of supporting players with intelligence and humor…. Richly imagined, profound, and of the moment.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus, starred review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Helen Schulman has produced a darkly comic and oddly romantic story about multiverse theory, alternative lives, and the craziness of the tech industry. By turns amusing and provocative, this is one compelling novel.” - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eWalter Isaacson\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“With wit and compassion, Helen Schulman explores what happened, what might have happened, and what could still happen in the lives of one family. 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