Zero

<p>Smith Babbitt is in the prime of his life: he's only 25 years into his 89-year lifespan.</p><p></p><p>He knows this because of Timmy® the mysterious app that can tell you with infallible accuracy how old you will be when you die. Smith still has 64 years to go. But lately he's been in a rut and his long lifespan is starting to feel like a sentence.</p><p></p><p>Possible salvation arrives in the form of Mavis Pead a co-worker at Smith's demoralizing job. Smith is infatuated despite the age difference: Mavis has just entered the last of her 43 years. She's a zero - the most shunned demographic in society. When a careless act leads to their boss's apparent death before his time Smith and Mavis are thrown together in an intrigue that could call Timmy®'s infallibility into question. Mavis might not be so old after all - nor Smith so young.</p><p></p><p>A laugh-out-loud sendup of a technologically dependent culture <em>Zero</em> is also a tender love story and a big-hearted reflection on the true meaning of age. A story that asks the question What do we do with the time we're given whether we know how long we have...or we don't?</p>