Life in the "digital now" | Abha Dawesar

Published: Oct. 30, 2013, 3:16 p.m.

One year ago, Abha Dawesar was living in blacked-out Manhattan post-Sandy, scrounging for power to connect. As a novelist, she was struck by this metaphor: Have our lives now become fixated on the drive to digitally connect, while we miss out on what's real?