So, as it happened, the day I started this book, I jokingly sent my friends a musical suggestion for what careers we should adopt instead of the rabbinate in the current situation. The song, of course, was The Last Saskatchewan Pirate (Derina Harvey Band’s cover, actually).
So this was certainly appropriate.
What Newitz does in this book is really interesting and, while I see the ways in which the two narratives of ownership and agency intersect, I’m also not precisely sure either one got the full development that would have made me really care. They felt more like vehicles for exploring the world and ideas - the irony of which is much appreciated- and/but without fully resolving into the internally interesting people I wanted them to be.