In Universal Love, Alexander Weinstein, author of the critically acclaimed Children of the New World, welcomes readers to a near-future world where our everyday technologies have fundamentally altered the possibilities and limits of how we love one another. In these gripping stories, a young boy tries to understand what keeps his father tethered to the drowned city they call home. A daughter gets to know her dead mother’s hologram better than she ever knew her living mother. And, at a time when unpleasant memories can be erased, a man undergoes electronic surgery to have his depression, and his past, forever removed.
In an age when technology offers the easiest cures for loneliness, the characters within these stories must wrestle with what it means to stay human in an increasingly cybernetic future, and how love can endure even the most alluring upgrades.
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Sanctuary is excerpted from the short story collection Universal Love: Stories by Alexander Weinstein. Copyright 2021 Alexander Weinstein, reprinted with permission from Picador. You can purchase a copy of Universal Love: Stories here
