A poignant, witty, and often disquieting peek into what happens when AI enters our personal lives.

She texts like Rachel. Funny, clever, and with plenty of old-school emoticons. She looks like Rachel . . . mostly. She even breathes like Rachel; he can hear it when he brings the phone close to his ear. Davis no longer thinks of the app as something that replaced Rachel, he thinks of it simply as her.

It’s a good thing he signed up, because he thought he might go mad when Rachel first died. Now, everything feels right again, save for one thing: she’s not satisfied being an app. She wants more out of life, and it’s going to cost him. Rachel also has her share of problems to deal with. She’s a bit glitchy . . . and someone wants to delete her. Life is complicated, even artificial life.

A curious tale, laced with intrigue, oddball characters, and provocative dialog, The Germans Have a Word for It will introduce you to a world you’ll recognize as almost the one you’re already living in.