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Professor Maxine Sayers once found her personal and professional life so fulfilling that she founded the Institute of Future Studies, a program dedicated to studying the effects of technology on our culture and finding ways to prolong human life. But when her beloved husband dies, she is so devastated she can barely get out of bed. To make matters worse, her son, Zach, has abruptly quit his job in Silicon Valley and been out of contact for seven months.
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Eileen Pollack is the author of the novels A Perfect Life, Breaking and Entering (a New York Times Editor's Choice selection) and Paradise, New York, as well as two collections of short fiction, The Rabbi in the Attic and In the Mouth. Her award-winning book of nonfiction Woman Walking Ahead: In Search of Catherine Weldon and Sitting Bull, was recently made into a major motion picture starring Jessica Chastain. An excerpt from her investigative memoir, The Only Woman in the Room: Why Science Is Still a Boys' Club, was published in The New York Times Magazine and went viral. Her work has appeared in Best American Essays and Best American Short Stories, among many other journals and anthologies. She is a professor on the faculty of the Helen Zell MFA Program in Creative Writing at the University of Michigan. She divides her time between Manhattan and Ann Arbor, Michigan.Photo credit Michele McDonald.
