{"product_id":"the-metaphysical-touch-a-novel-9780312263577","title":"The Metaphysical Touch: A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003eA 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.\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45816265703477,"sku":"ByrdShop_0312263570","price":21.59,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780312263577.jpg?v=1785181283","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-metaphysical-touch-a-novel-9780312263577","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}