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It's 2010. Staggeringly successful and brilliant tech entrepreneur Bix Bouton is desperate for a new idea. He's forty, with four kids, and restless when he stumbles into a conversation with mostly Columbia professors, one of whom is experimenting with downloading or 'externalizing' memory. Within a decade, Bix's new technology, Own Your Unconscious, that allows you access to every memory you've ever had, and to share every memory in exchange for access to the memories of others, has seduced multitudes. But not everyone.
About the author
Jennifer Egan is the author of six previous books of fiction:
Manhattan Beach, winner of the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction;
A Visit from the Goon Squad, which won the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award;
The Keep; the story collection
Emerald City;
Look at Me, a National Book Award Finalist; and
The Invisible Circus. Her work has appeared in
The New Yorker,
Harper’s Magazine,
Granta,
McSweeney’s, and
The New York Times Magazine. Her website is JenniferEgan.com.
