Many philosophical ideas get an airing in Rachel Khong's latest novel, including the existence of free will and the ethics of altering genomes to select for 'favorable' inheritable traits.
Many philosophical ideas get an airing in Rachel Khong's latest novel, including the existence of free will and the ethics of altering genomes to select for"favorable" inheritable traits.."What's a beginning but an arbitrary point of entry? You begin when you're born, I guess, but it's not like you know anything about that.
They bond over the rather banal fact that they were both born on Long Island and the more consequential fact that they vaguely knew one another as children. The art-history major confesses,"I wasn't the sort of person who yearned to shape a landscape. I wanted only to observe it." Matthew is intrigued enough to propose, after just a few dates.
The third and most memorable part of the book is told largely from the perspective of May, Nick's maternal grandmother. It opens in 2030 with a now octogenarian May trailing her grandson, who works at a"biotechnology startup." Nick had been led to believe — once again by his mother — that his grandmother had died years ago, but after bumping into each other in a drugstore, they slowly form a friendship and she unfurls the story of her life.
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