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His] deeply rewarding novel is about an online religion gone wrong and its importance lies in the fact that nearly all of us in the modernized world are members of that faith, whether we know it or not. The Wall Street Journal \u003cbr\u003e Remarkable . . . dazzling . . . Cohen s literary gifts . . . suggest that something is possible, that something still might be done to safeguard whatever it is that makes us human. Francine Prose, The New York Review of Books \u003cbr\u003e A hugely ambitious novel set in the high-tech world of now . . . a verbal high-wire act, daring in its tones and textures: clever, poetic, fast-moving, deeply playful, filled with jokes, savvy about machines, wise about people, dazzling and engrossing. Colm Toibin, The Guardian \u003cbr\u003e Joshua Cohen is the Great American Novelist. . . . Like Pynchon and Wallace, Cohen can write with tireless virtuosity about absolutely everything. Adam Kirsch, Tablet\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e A digital-age Ulysses. 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