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Judith Newman

To Siri, With Love


A mother, her autistic son, and the kindness of a machine
2018. 240 S. 198 mm
Verlag/Jahr: QUERCUS 2018
ISBN: 1-78429-828-X (178429828X)
Neue ISBN: 978-1-78429-828-9 (9781784298289)

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Based on the New York Times viral sensation, the uplifting story of a mother, her autistic son and the kindness of machines. For fans of Fall Down 7 Times, Get Up 8, Jem Lester´s Shtum and Keith Stuart´s A Boy Made of Blocks.
´Incredibly moving´ Daily Mail

´To Siri with Love is a beautifully honest and illuminating love letter to Gus, your typical atypical nonneurotypical human.´ Jon Stewart

´A moving and witty memoir with a big heart.´ Nigella Lawson

´An uncommonly riotous and moving book [that] will make readers laugh - yes, out loud - before sweeping them, finally, into a soul-spilling high tide . . . Technology´s great promise may in fact be to summon, capture and display our most human qualities, both the darkness and the light, to pave avenues of deepened connections with others.´ New York Times

Writer Judith Newman never had any illusions that her family was ´normal´. She and her husband keep separate apartments-his filled with twin grand pianos as befits a former opera singer; hers filled with the clutter and chaos of twin adolescent boys conceived late in life. And one of those boys is Gus, her sweet, complicated, autistic 13-year-old.

With refreshing honesty, To Siri With Love chronicles one year in the life of Gus and the family around him -- a family with the same crazy ups and downs as any other. And at the heart of the book lies Gus´s passionate friendship with Siri, Apple´s ´intelligent personal assistant´. Unlike her human counterparts, Siri always has the right answers to Gus´s incessant stream of questions about the intricacies of national rail schedules, or box turtle varieties, and she never runs out of patience. She always makes sure Gus enunciates and even teaches him manners by way of her warm yet polite tone and her programmed insistence on civility.

Equal parts funny and touching, this is a book that will make your heart brim, and then break it. Warm, wise and always honest, Judith Newman shows us a new world where artificial intelligence is beginning to meet emotional intelligence -- a world that will shape our children in ways both wonderful and unexpected.
To Siri with Love is a beautifully honest and illuminating love letter to Gus, your typical atypical non neurotypical human. Jon Stewart
Newman, Judith
Judith Newman is the author of You Make Me Feel Like an Unnatural Woman. She is a columnist for the New York Times Book Review and a regular contributor to the New York Times Style Section. She writes a humour column for Prevention, and also writes for National Geographic, Allure, Vanity Fair and many other publications. She and her sons live in Manhattan.