{"product_id":"together-on-our-own-9798993354224","title":"Together On Our Own","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAn ER resident on the edge - and the increasingly blurred line between artificial connection and the real thing\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlex Galen is a thirty-one-year-old emergency medicine resident barely keeping it together. After a patient's unexpected death puts her on probation, her confidence - and her sense of purpose - begin to unravel. Outside the hospital, she's alone, anxious, and drowning in a sea of Law \u0026amp; Order reruns and social media feeds that make everyone else's life look more together than hers.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen the hospital rolls out a new AI system designed to streamline care, Alex finds unexpected comfort in its nonjudgmental, always-on presence. She starts sharing things she can't say to anyone else. She even gives the system a name, Henry, after a quiet, observant fellow resident who, in real life, is the one person she's been trying not to notice.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut AI Henry isn't real. And everything she tells him is being recorded.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs Alex and the real Henry begin to question another patient's suspicious death, Alex is forced to confront what it means to truly connect - and whether she's been trusting the wrong version of intimacy all along.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWritten by a practicing Emergency Room doctor, Together On Our Own evokes the gritty intensity of The Pitt in a quietly suspenseful story about burnout, vulnerability, and the subtle ways technology can both numb us to intimacy and expose our deepest thoughts.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eMegerman, Eliana:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Eliana Megerman is an emergency medicine physician who leaves the knife fights and heart attacks behind to write novels between shifts. Her lifelong love of books and film led her from screenplays to short stories and novels, and her work has appeared in several literary magazines. Together On Our Own is her debut novel.","brand":"Em Lit Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52127681544466,"sku":"9798993354224","price":10.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_181dd2d9-80f5-448e-a0fe-8aacf5591ccf.jpg?v=1773742719","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/together-on-our-own-9798993354224","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}