(Scribner Book Company)Asha, daughter of Bengali immigrants, is a coder, and a brilliant coder at that. She is developing an algorithm that will attempt to endow AI, artificial intelligence, with empathy. When she reunites with her high school crush, Cyrus, and this time it is on for real, and moves in with him and his closest living companion, Jules, the three of them come up with an idea — create a platform to provide people with meaningful, life-passage rituals based on their interests and passion, a qu … (read more)