Set 20 minutes into the future, Pearl works for Apricity, a company whose machine will tell you what you need to do to become happier. She's good at her job, but her personal life is falling apart. Her husband left her for a younger woman, but carries a torch for her, her son has an eating disorder and actively tries to be unhappy, and the models Apricity tells her to build are no longer making her happy.
This book is weird, it doesn't have a point, and I was sorely disappointed in it. It sounded AWESOME from what I'd read from the back, but the story meandering got me. I liked the characters, but they just wove in an out, without really furthering the plot. The characters growth or porgression? Yes. The plot seems pretty non existent. It was more like a series of short stories intertwined than a novel itself.