Description: "With its large heart, compelling cast of characters and frighteningly-not-far-from-reality technology, Tell the Machine Goodnight is a story that will compel you to keep reading, while also allowing you the space to meditate on the understanding that happiness looks different for everyone." -- PopMatters "Inventive debut." -- Real Simple "Williams's debut, a savvy take on technology's potential and its moral failings, imagines a near future in which lives are altered by a happiness machine...Williams never allows satire to overtake her story's moral center or its profoundly generous and humanistic heart, resulting in a sharp and moving novel." -- Publishers Weekly "Allow me to introduce you to your new favorite writer. Katie Williams plunges into our obsession with technology and its effect on our lives and dreams, and emerges with miraculous gifts for us--she unwraps the present and the future." -- James Hannaham, award-winning author of Delicious Foods: A Novel "My prescription for happiness is: 'Sit still, read a book that can't be classified by genre, and tell everyone.' I'm telling you, Katie Williams delivers. Tell the Machine Goodnight transcends categorization in the best way possible--it is part love story, part science fiction, part feminist inspirational wake-up call, and all of it moving and compelling. I never knew what was going to happen and, when I found out, I was always delighted." --Helen Ellis, New York Times -bestselling author of American Housewife " Philosophical, funny, cleverly structured, unpredictable. The characters are recognizably humans, but not ones I have met before; the world-building is creative and completely convincing. I doubt I will ever read another a novel with a more moving trip up a VR mountain." --Gabrielle Zevin, New York Times -bestselling author of Young Jane Young and The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry "With its clever, compelling vision of the future, deeply human characters, and delightfully unpredictable story, this novel is itself a receipe for contentment." -- Kirkus Reviews , starred review "Filled with extraordinary writing, wish-they-existed characters, and unexpected narrative turns , this novel will delight your mind and heart." -- Courtney Maum, author of Touch and I Am Having So Much Fun Here Without You "Katie Williams's fierce moral intelligence sparks off the page...Generous, perceptive, intensely smart: this is just the novel we need." -- Kirstin Valdez Quade, award-winning author of Night at the Fiestas "How much control do we have over our own happiness -- and would we be better off if we had the ability to nudge it just a little more'...A captivating, thought-provoking and utterly charming novel about the elusive nature of happiness and the limits of both technology and our own self-knowledge." -- Carolyn Parkhurst, New York Times- bestselling author of Harmony and The Dogs of Babel

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