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by Vauhini Vara



One of Esquire's 20 Most Anticipated Books of 2025
One of Foreign Policy's Most Anticipated Books of 2025
One of Lit Hub's Most Anticipated Books of 2025
One of Electric Literature's 48 Books by Women of Colour to Read in 2025

When Vauhini Vara was fourteen, her sister was diagnosed with cancer. Too terrified to discuss it with a human, Vara instead turned to the fledgling internet with her questions. Those seminal early experiences influenced her decision to become a technology reporter; decades later, she used a predecessor to ChatGPT to help her write about her sister's death.

In this provocative, timely and highly personal account of our interdependent relationship with technology, she examines the early days of the internet, the encroachment of social media into our lives and how we might work with AI in the future. Brimming with candour, humour and a probing, roving intelligence, Searches anoints Vara, a Pulitzer Prize finalist, as an essential voice for our moment.
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Pages:

352

Published:

5 Aug 2025

Format

Paperback

Publisher

Grove/Atlantic, Incorporated

Imprint

Grove Press

ISBN:

9781804710685



One of Esquire's 20 Most Anticipated Books of 2025
One of Foreign Policy's Most Anticipated Books of 2025
One of Lit Hub's Most Anticipated Books of 2025
One of Electric Literature's 48 Books by Women of Colour to Read in 2025

When Vauhini Vara was fourteen, her sister was diagnosed with cancer. Too terrified to discuss it with a human, Vara instead turned to the fledgling internet with her questions. Those seminal early experiences influenced her decision to become a technology reporter; decades later, she used a predecessor to ChatGPT to help her write about her sister's death.

In this provocative, timely and highly personal account of our interdependent relationship with technology, she examines the early days of the internet, the encroachment of social media into our lives and how we might work with AI in the future. Brimming with candour, humour and a probing, roving intelligence, Searches anoints Vara, a Pulitzer Prize finalist, as an essential voice for our moment.
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