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“I chose it because it’s a great example of contemporary fiction related to prophecy. It’s about a psychic who gets on a delayed flight, and goes into a trance, and starts telling everyone on the flight their fate. When they land, she doesn’t remember anything about this, but a few days later, some of the things that she had foreseen start to occur and that unnerves the people whose future she had predicted. I like the book because it’s contemporary, it’s well written, it’s funny. It raises a lot of questions about first, the industry of psychics and how popular that still is – it’s worth millions and millions of dollars every year. Secondly, it shows how, even when you don’t believe a psychic, when somebody tells us what our future is going to be, we’re so susceptible to being influenced, and so superstitious that even when we ourselves don’t believe in psychics, it can affect how we experience life subsequently, how we view ourselves and our destiny. It raises questions about whether we can defy the odds, whether we can change what seems to be inevitable.” Read more...
Carissa Véliz, Philosopher
“Narrators Caroline Lee and Geraldine Hakewill weave the threads of this tense exploration of free will. Lee voices a nondescript woman on a delayed flight across Australia who suddenly stands and begins pointing to fellow passengers and stating how they will die and when. Hakewill’s narration creates the sense that the other travelers are united in fear and hope.” Read more...
