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I thoroughly enjoyed this book. It's rare to find literary scifi / speculative fiction that's so subtle and careful in the building of plot. Halfway in, when the thing happens, I was almost disappointed, wishing it would have stuck to just being about those small discrepancies and the general feeling of unease. But, obviously, the 2nd half was good too.

We're in the very near future, autonomous cars and algorithms are ever-present, a physicist works on a causality violation device and his wife has these moments of uncanny, where things just don't seem quite right. The book's title will eventually come into play and it's done very elegantly and all the geeks will be satisfied. But it's far from just a scifi book, it's also about the lives of scientists, all our realities in this age of data, about addictions and regrets and all the different versions of people we are.

Also, isn't that cover great?
4.5