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TOUCH
With the same mixture of quick wit and heartfelt emotion that won her debut novel, I AM HAVING SO MUCH FUN HERE WITHOUT YOU, this new novel is a timely reminder to keep our heads up and our hearts open in our modern lives.
Sloane Jacobsen is decidedly pro-technology when she comes from Paris to work for the consumer electronics juggernaut, Mammoth, as their in-house trend forecaster for six months in New York. Among other successful premonitions, she predicted the swipe that has revolutionized the way people interact with their electronics.
Always busy with work, and estranged from her family after her father’s death fifteen years earlier, Sloane throws herself into her mission to prepare the company for a ReProduction conference that will prioritize the needs and desires of anti-breeders she’s championed before.
But not far into her contract, Sloane begins to see the signs of a movement against personal electronics that will push people back into analog contact. She is struggling with the fact that her predictions are hopelessly out of sync with her employers’ mission when her partner, the French neo-sensualist Roman Bellard, reveals that he is about to publish an op ed on the death of penetrative sex: a post-sexual treatise that instantly goes viral.
Against the backdrop of a developing relationship with a colleague and shifting dynamics in her family, Sloane becomes convinced that her instincts are the right ones, and goes on a quest to bring compassion and humanism to others, while finally allowing the love and connectedness she’s long been denying herself.
Courtney Maum is the author of the novel, I Am Having So Much Fun Here Without You, which was named a Best Book of 2014 by Real Simple, Bustle, Flavorwire, and Electric Literature. The humor columnist behind the "Celebrity Book Review" series on Electric Literature, a frequent contributor to The Rumpus, and an advice columnist for Tin House, Courtney splits her time between the Massachusetts Berkshires and New York City. She's also the author of the chapbook "Notes from Mexico" from The Cupboard Press.
Always busy with work, and estranged from her family after her father’s death fifteen years earlier, Sloane throws herself into her mission to prepare the company for a ReProduction conference that will prioritize the needs and desires of anti-breeders she’s championed before.
But not far into her contract, Sloane begins to see the signs of a movement against personal electronics that will push people back into analog contact. She is struggling with the fact that her predictions are hopelessly out of sync with her employers’ mission when her partner, the French neo-sensualist Roman Bellard, reveals that he is about to publish an op ed on the death of penetrative sex: a post-sexual treatise that instantly goes viral.
Against the backdrop of a developing relationship with a colleague and shifting dynamics in her family, Sloane becomes convinced that her instincts are the right ones, and goes on a quest to bring compassion and humanism to others, while finally allowing the love and connectedness she’s long been denying herself.
Courtney Maum is the author of the novel, I Am Having So Much Fun Here Without You, which was named a Best Book of 2014 by Real Simple, Bustle, Flavorwire, and Electric Literature. The humor columnist behind the "Celebrity Book Review" series on Electric Literature, a frequent contributor to The Rumpus, and an advice columnist for Tin House, Courtney splits her time between the Massachusetts Berkshires and New York City. She's also the author of the chapbook "Notes from Mexico" from The Cupboard Press.
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