The Metaphysical Touch: A Novel
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A Los Angeles Times Best Book of the Year In 1991 Emily Piper is a graduate student finishing her dissertation on metaphysics when her home and work are destroyed in the Berkeley-Oakland fires. With her lifes work in cinders she retreats in shock to the small coastal town of Mendocino. It is here that Emily becomes hesitantly involved in the early days of Net chat rooms. Soon Emily dubbed Pi wanders into the quixotic thoughts of JD a mysterious figure living on Americas opposite coast. What develops is a tentative stimulating and perilous relationship. Who is JD and furthermore who now is Pi? This is the highly original multilayered story of two lost souls whose charged connection gives new meaning to the "mind/body problem."
