The Winter of Our Disconnect, by Susan Maushart, Bantam $34.95.
The author’s three children didn’t remember a time before email or instant messaging or Google. They didn’t just use the media, they “inhabited” it.
And so Maushart embarks upon The Experiment, to live without any of it; pull the plug on the family’s entire armoury of electric weaponry and live in self-imposed exile for six months. The short answer is that yes, life was “infinitely” better – eventually. But it’s what happens along the way that makes this witty, very well written, sharply observed account of that experience a compelling and highly entertaining story of our times.
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