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The Observable Universe

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The Observable UniverseBy: Heather McCalden Is anyone ever truly lost in the internet age? A moving, original memoir of a young woman reckoning with her parents absence, the virus that took them, and what it means to search for meaning in a hyperconnected world. Brilliantly innovative . . . syncing a narrative of profoundly personal emotion with the invention and evolution of todays cyberspace.William Gibson, author of Neuromancer and The Peripheral In the early 1990s,

By: Heather McCalden     
Is anyone ever truly lost in the internet age? A moving, original memoir of a young woman reckoning with her parents’ absence, the virus that took them, and what it means to search for meaning in a hyperconnected world.

“Brilliantly innovative . . . syncing a narrative of profoundly personal emotion with the invention and evolution of today’s cyberspace.”—William Gibson, author of Neuromancer and The Peripheral

In the early 1990s, Heather McCalden lost both her parents to AIDS. She was seven when her father died, ten when she lost her mother. Raised by her grandmother, Nivia, she grew up in Los Angeles, also known as ground zero for the virus and its destruction.

Years later, she begins researching online the history of HIV as a way to deal with her loss, which leads her to the unexpected realization that the AIDS crisis and the internet developed on parallel timelines. By accumulating whatever fragments she could about both phenomena—images, anecdotes, and scientific entries—alongside her own personal history, McCalden forms a synaptic journey of what happened to her family, one that leads to an equally unexpected discovery about who her parents might have been.

Entwining this personal search with a wider cultural narrative of what the virus and virality mean in our times—interrogating what it means to “go viral” in an era of explosive biochemical and virtual contagion—The Observable Universe is at once a history of our viral culture and a prismatic account of grief in the internet age.
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This was a gift for our niece. She loves to paint her nails, and we noticed similar mats at the nail salon we go to - so we got her an age appropriate nail "studio" to gift along with it. My friend thought it would be great for laying out when coloring and painting also, because its large.
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Love it! The texture is nice and smooth, and it didn't take much fighting to get it to lay flat. I appreciate the double-sided nature with a different color on either side-- I end up using the white side more because it helps me see the colors of the polish against the nail better. I recommend making sure the holes on the strap are open before using it just to save yourself the time of fighting with the snap to push it through.
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