In the Nevada desert, in the near future, a brilliant biologist and single mother named Naomi Chiang sets off a chain reaction that threatens to bring the networked world to its knees. When her seventeen-year-old son, Colt, who spends most of his time in the comfort of virtual reality, secretly releases her latest findingsa process for regrowing human tissueColts estranged father crashes into their lives again, backed by the secretive security organization he heads. The U.S. government wants Naomis research . . . and her son, who must leave the virtual sphere to discover the pleasuresand painsof a life fully lived. Page-turning and thought-provoking, Connect is a whip-smart novel that explores what connectionboth human and otherwisemight be in a digital age. It is a story of mothers and sons; but it is also about you, your phone, and the world to come.