The Glitch

<p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>How far would you go to achieve the optimal version of yourself?</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>In Grace Kwak's debut novel </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>The Glitch</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> an engineer named Ethel lives in a techno-utopia that's devoid of errors. The data-driven system assigns her a successful career path friendships hobbies and even a pet dog. The voice in her head advises her every move enabling Ethel to reach her full potential physically mentally and emotionally. Everything is the best it can computationally be...until it isn't.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>A mysterious glitch in the system begins destroying humanity as a whole turning people into unpredictable and self-sabotaging dangers to society. The crisis forces Ethel out of her idealized existence and into a broken reality calling into question everything she believes about who she is and who she wants to be.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Errors break computers; flaws make us human.</span></p>