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Author Maum, Courtney, 1978- author.

Title Touch a novel / Courtney Maum.

Publication Info. New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, ©2017.

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Location Call Number Status
 East Hampton Adult Fiction   FIC MAU    DUE 04-06-24
 Guilford Adult Fiction   FIC MAUM    AVAILABLE
 Hamden/Miller Adult Fiction   FIC/MAUM    AVAILABLE
 Ledyard/Bill Adult Fiction   F Maum    AVAILABLE
 Madison/Scranton Adult Fiction - New   F MAUM    AVAILABLE
 Meriden Adult Fiction   FIC MAUM    AVAILABLE
 Old Saybrook/Acton Adult Fiction   F MAUM    AVAILABLE
 Wallingford Adult Fiction   MAUM    AVAILABLE
 Woodbridge Adult Fiction   FIC MAUM    AVAILABLE
Description 306 pages ; 24 cm
Content text
Media unmediated
Carrier volume
Summary "Sloane Jacobsen is the most powerful trend forecaster in the world (she was the foreseer of "the swipe"), and global fashion, lifestyle, and tech companies pay to hear her opinions about the future. Her recent forecasts on the family are unwavering: the world is over-populated, and with unemployment, college costs, and food prices all on the rise, having children is an extravagant indulgence. So it's no surprise when the tech giant Mammoth hires Sloane to lead their groundbreaking annual conference, celebrating the voluntarily childless. But not far into her contract, Sloane begins to sense the undeniable signs of a movement against electronics that will see people embracing compassion, empathy, and "in-personism" again. She's struggling with the fact that her predictions are hopelessly out of sync with her employer's mission and that her closest personal relationship is with her self-driving car when her partner, the French "neo-sensualist" Roman Bellard, reveals that he is about to publish an op-ed on the death of penetrative sex--a post-sexual treatise that instantly goes viral. Despite the risks to her professional reputation, Sloane is nevertheless convinced that her instincts are the right ones, and goes on a quest to defend real life human interaction, while finally allowing in the love and connectedness she's long been denying herself." -- Provided by publisher.
Subject Interpersonal relations -- Fiction.
Forecasting -- Fiction.
Technology -- Social aspects -- Fiction.
ISBN 9780735212121