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From Helen Schulman, the acclaimed author of the New York Times bestseller This Beautiful Life, 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.
"What do you want to know?"
Amy 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.
Donny 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?
Amy'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.
Taking place over three non-consecutive but vitally important days for Amy, Dan, and their three sons, Come with Me is searing, entertaining, and unexpected--a dark comedy that is ultimately both a deeply romantic love story and a vivid tapestry of modern life.
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"Helen Schulman is one of the most gifted writers of our generation."--Jennifer Egan on A Day at the Beach
"A rich, engrossing, and surprisingly nuanced novel exploring timeless questions of guilt and responsibility."--O, the Oprah Magazine on This Beautiful Life
"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."--Slate on This Beautiful Life
"Riveting.... As much as this book fiercely inhabits our shared online reality, it operates most powerfully on a deeper level, posing an enduring question about American values."--New York Times Book Review on This Beautiful Life (cover review)
"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 This Beautiful Life, 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."--Boston Globe on This Beautiful Life
"With wit and compassion, Helen Schulman explores what happened, what might have happened, and what could still happen in the lives of one family. Clever and sparkling, fascinating and tender, eerily resonant, Come With Me is a novel for everyone who has ever wondered: What if."--Chloe Benjamin, author of The Immortalists
"Come with Me is an inventive and incisive novel about the way we live now and the way we might have lived. Helen Schulman is a gifted and generous writer."--Jess Walter, author of Beautiful Ruins
Praise for Come With Me
"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." --Walter Isaacson
"With her hallmark wit, authority, and precisely observed details, Schulman shows us the complexity of mid-life trials amid constant and immersive technology: the regret, the longing, and the undeniable wonder. A compassionate, astute, and irresistibly compelling novel." --Dana Spiotta, author of Innocents and Others
"Helen Schulman once again displays her gift for mining the human story from the overwhelming complexities of modern times. While deftly exploring multiple realities--from digital relationships and technological disruption, to nuclear power and quantum mechanics-- Come with Me transports us to a singular, moving and powerful end." --Nathan Englander, author of Dinner at the Center of the Earth
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"A rich, engrossing, and surprisingly nuanced novel exploring timeless questions of guilt and responsibility."--O, the Oprah Magazine on This Beautiful Life
"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."--Slate on This Beautiful Life
"Riveting.... As much as this book fiercely inhabits our shared online reality, it operates most powerfully on a deeper level, posing an enduring question about American values."--New York Times Book Review on This Beautiful Life (cover review)
"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 This Beautiful Life, 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."--Boston Globe on This Beautiful Life
"With wit and compassion, Helen Schulman explores what happened, what might have happened, and what could still happen in the lives of one family. Clever and sparkling, fascinating and tender, eerily resonant, Come With Me is a novel for everyone who has ever wondered: What if."--Chloe Benjamin, author of The Immortalists
"Come with Me is an inventive and incisive novel about the way we live now and the way we might have lived. Helen Schulman is a gifted and generous writer."--Jess Walter, author of Beautiful Ruins
Praise for Come With Me
"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." --Walter Isaacson
"With her hallmark wit, authority, and precisely observed details, Schulman shows us the complexity of mid-life trials amid constant and immersive technology: the regret, the longing, and the undeniable wonder. A compassionate, astute, and irresistibly compelling novel." --Dana Spiotta, author of Innocents and Others
"Helen Schulman once again displays her gift for mining the human story from the overwhelming complexities of modern times. While deftly exploring multiple realities--from digital relationships and technological disruption, to nuclear power and quantum mechanics-- Come with Me transports us to a singular, moving and powerful end." --Nathan Englander, author of Dinner at the Center of the Earth
“What do you want to know?”
Amy 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.
Donny 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?
Amy’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.
Taking place over three nonconsecutive but vitally important days in the lives of Amy, Dan, and their three sons, Come with Me is searing, entertaining, and unpredictable—a dark comedy that is ultimately both a deeply romantic love story and a vivid tapestry of modern life.
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