A Guide For The Perplexed Dara Horn by Dara Horn 9780393064896, 0393064891, B00CF2M964 instant download after payment.

The incomparable Dara Horn returns with a spellbinding novel of how technology changes memory and how memory shapes the soul.

Software prodigy Josie Ashkenazi has invented an application that records everything its users do. When an Egyptian library invites her to visit as a consultant, her jealous sister Judith persuades her to go. But in Egypt’s post-revolutionary chaos, Josie is abducted — leaving Judith free to take over Josie’s life at home, including her husband and daughter, while Josie’s talent for preserving memories becomes a surprising test of her empathy and her only means of escape. An engrossing adventure that intertwines stories from Genesis, medieval philosophy, and the digital frontier, A Guide for the Perplexed is a novel of profound inner meaning and astonishing imagination.

"This is extraordinary material, emotionally resonant and intellectually suggestive, and Horn’s portraits of the sisters are wonderfully ambiguous... Beautifully written and overwhelmingly sad, the final monologue by Josie’s daughter concludes a flawed novel whose ambitious failures are in every way more interesting than the perfections of a small, safe book."  -  Wendy Smith, The Washington Post