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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.