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Harper
December 2018
On Sale: November 27, 2018
320 pages
ISBN: 0062459139
EAN: 9780062459138
Kindle: B077MFHMHH
Hardcover / e-Book
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Women's Fiction Contemporary
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)βa 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 roommateβs 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"βall the planes on which their alternative life choices can be played out simultaneously βto see how the decisions theyβve made have shaped their lives. Donny wants Amy to be his guinea pig. And even as she questions Donnyβs theories and motives, Amy finds herself unable to resist the lure of the road(s) not taken. Who would she be if she had made different choices, loved different people? Where would she be now? Amyβs husband, Danβan unemployed, perhaps unemployable, print journalistβaccepts a dare of his own, accompanying a seductive, award-winning photographer named Maryam on a trip to Fukushima, the Japanese city devastated by tsunami and meltdown. Collaborating with Maryam, Dan feels a renewed sense of excitement and possibility he hasnβt felt with his wife in a long time. But when crisis hits at home, the extent of Danβs betrayal is exposed and, as Amy contemplates alternative lives, the couple must confront whether the distances between them in the here and now are irreconcilable. Taking place over three non-consecutive but vitally important days for Amy, Dan, and their three sons, Come with Me is searing, entertaining, and unexpectedβa dark comedy that is ultimately both a deeply romantic love story and a vivid tapestry of modern life.
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