Recursion

By Terena Elizabeth Bell

In October 2002, as a sniper is shooting people at gas stations along the DC Beltway, Sabrina, a jilted coder from Louisville, Kentucky, suddenly sees the inevitable fix to an intractable bug. Written in a series of flashbacks and flash-forwards, Recursion runs its protagonist’s obsessive algorithm all the way out, and then asks what remains.

Notices

“Recursion is a darkly funny, razor-sharp novel about the terrifying logic of a woman who refuses to lose—and you’ll root for her anyway.”

—Twist Phelan, author of The Target

“A very sexy literary thriller. Don’t miss it!”

—Tiffany Reisz, author of The Red

“A relentlessly intelligent novel about love, grief, violence, and self-knowledge, set at a pivotal point in recent American life. The prose is sharp and alive, animated by hard-won insight and mordant humor.”

—David Leo Rice, author of The Berlin Wall