My gramma passed away suddenly about a month after I read this book. The story inspired me to FaceTime her when I couldn't be with her in ICU.

Very, very well written and a surprising story. While I could not put the book down while I was reading it, I was ultimately disappointed with the subject matter and the ending. Nonetheless, I await Ms. Frankel's next novel, as I feel that she shows extraordinary promise..

When it comes to creating algorithms that improve matches between singles looking for love, Sam Elling is a victim of his own success. Although his creation helps Sam finds his own soul mate, it also threatens his employer's business - and results in his termination. Out of work, he develops a program based on previously sent emails that allows his new love, Meredith, to "correspond" with her recently deceased grandmother. This soon mushrooms into a commercial success (RePose), but it also provokes moral and ethical quandaries and opposition from religious groups and, eventually, forces half of the new couple to question whether RePose is a blessing or a curse when it comes to letting go of loved ones. Listed in the Next Reads Fiction A to Z newsletter September 2012 http://www.nextreads.com/Display2.aspx?SID=5acc8fc1-4e91-4ebe-906d-f8fc5e82a8e0&N=548707

OMG What a wonderful, compelling, insightful, intriguing book! Humorous, sad, thought provoking blending and flowing and drawing you into it's web of searching, and learning and understanding, and seeking and living.

Good on many levels, funny, current, thought provoking. Would promote discussion in a young thinking bookclub