Life is the stories we carry and tell.
This one builds an arc from oral cultures to statistically probably AI output, from old friendships you still miss and turns not taken to restoring our earth and oceans that technology has consumed.

Beautifully woven and told.

I read Playground because I previously enjoyed The Overstory also by Richard Powers that I read in March 2022. Bought Playground as ebook earlier this year (via Kobo, not Amazon as I stopped spending money with them at the start of this year).